person
Valeria Messalina
Messalina
Third wife of Claudius, executed in AD 48 after her bigamous marriage to Gaius Silius; she greets the dead Claudius among the underworld throng.
Reading notes
- The Pumpkinification of the Divine Claudius §13 Messalina
Claudius's third wife, executed in AD 48; she heads the crowd of his victims in the underworld.
- Natural Questions §4.pr.15 Messallina
Valeria Messalina, wife of Claudius, with Narcissus a power behind early Claudian purges.
- Octavia §957 who ruled the prince's hall
Messalina, wife of Claudius and mother of Octavia, executed in AD 48 after her notorious 'marriage' to Silius.