Messalina

Valeria Messalina (17/18 –48 CE) was the third wife of the Roman emperor Claudius. She was the daughter of Domitia Lepida and Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus.

Sources

Messalina's life, intrigues, and lusts are reported by Dio Cassius in Roman History, books 60 and 61; Juvenal in Satires 6 and 10; Pliny the Elder in Natural History book 10; Seneca the Younger in his satire Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii and play Octavia, 257-261; Sextus Aurelius Victor in the epitome of his Book of Caesars, 4; Suetonius in Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Claudius 26; and Tacitus in the Annals, 11.26-37. She is also mentioned by Plutarch.

Related Topics:
Dio Cassius - Juvenal - Pliny the Elder - Seneca the Younger - Sextus Aurelius Victor - Suetonius - Tacitus - Plutarch

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• Messalina as an infamous woman.
• Messalina as a woman of influence.