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  iclaudius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Messalina (future wife of Claudius) is one of the girls in the dance.
Claudius and Valeria Messalina marry in the palace.
Messalina cries — tells Claudius that poor Silanus is sick for love for her.
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 Marcus Antonius to Maite - tobg03.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Claudius married (3) Valeria Messalina daughter of child of Octavia in 0039.
Lucius married (3) Statilia Messalina in after AD 65.
Valeria Messalina (child of Octavia, Marcus Antonius) was born in 0025.
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 Hillary is no Mrs. Caligula - PittsburghLIVE.com
Valeria Messalina was married to the Emperor Claudius and was later forced to commit suicide due to her multiple, flagrant infidelities and plots against him.
Statilia Messalina was the third wife and, later, widow of the emperor Nero.
Schlaf's wonderful phrase "multiple, flagrant infidelities," which could have been mistaken for a "marriage" and the title of "wife." This D.C. writer was not there at the time, and he has no evidence that any of the naughty Messalina gals traded in cattle futures or lost the Rose Law firm's billing records.
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 MSN Encarta - Nero
In 65 Gaius Calpurnius Piso led a conspiracy against the emperor; 18 of the 41 prominent Romans implicated in the plot perished, among them Seneca and his nephew, the epic poet Lucan.
Poppaea died as a result of Nero's violence towards her, and he married Statilia Messalina after executing her husband.
In 68 the Gallic and Spanish legions, together with the Praetorian Guards, rebelled against Nero, forcing him to flee Rome.
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 Early Emperors
Though they were men of ability, who rendered useful service when it was in their own interest to do so, forming a sort of imperial secretariat, free of influence by class interests or social prejudices.
In AD 48 Claudius finally rid himself of Messalina, a wife who had disgusted Roman society with her constant betrayal and ridicule of her husband, until alas his eyes had been opened to the fact.
The place vacated by Messalina was secured by the emperor's ambitious niece, Agrippina the younger, sister of Caligula, widow of Domitius Ahenobarbus and the mother of the young Nero.
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 Statilia Messalina, Roman Imperial Coinage of, Thumbnail Index - WildWinds.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Statilia Messalina, Roman Imperial Coinage of, Thumbnail Index - WildWinds.com
Nero & Statilia Messalina AE24 of Hypaepa, Lydia.
Confronting draped bust of Statilia Messalina and laureate head of Nero / cult statue of Artemis.
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 Ancient History Sourcebook: Suetonius: De Vita Caesarum--Nero, c. 110 C.E.
When his mother was recalled from banishment and reinstated, he became so prominent through her influence that it leaked out that Messalina, wife of Claudius, had sent emissaries to strangle him as he was taking his noonday nap, regarding him as a rival of Britannicus.
An addition to this bit of gossip is, that the would-be assassins were frightened away by a snake which darted out from under his pillow.
Besides Octavia he later took two wives, Poppaea Sabina, daughter of an ex-quaestor and previously married to a Roman equis, and then Statilia Messalina, daughter of the great-grand- daughter of Taurus, who had been twice consul and awarded a triumph.
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 Divertimento: Merciful Titus
His father initiated the worship of the emperor Caligula as a god, and made an ostentatious fetish of Messalina's shoe; Aulus had been a chariot racing friend of Caligula, gambling companion of Claudius, and above all, master of ceremonies at performances where it was his agreeable duty to plead for encores by Nero.
At the time of his death, Otho had been planning to marry Nero's widow, Statilia Messalina.
Poppaea Sabina had died three years earlier of a miscarriage, brought on by Nero's kicking her while she was nagging him after a day at the races.
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 Nero - NumisWiki, The Collaborative Numismatics Project
But Claudius having espoused Agrippina, that unscrupulously ambitious princess persuaded him to adopt her son by Domitius and consequently to exclude Britannicus whom the Emperor had by Messalina.
His death to the joy of all, took place in the 68th rear of the Christian era, in the 31st rear of his age and in the 14th year of his reign.
He left no children by his three wives, Octavia, Poppaea and Statilia Messalina.
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He had, besides Octavia, two other wives: Poppaea Sabina, whose father had borne the office of quaestor, and who had been married before to a Roman knight: and, after her, Statilia Messalina, great-grand- daughter of Taurus [606] who was twice consul, and received the honour of a triumph.
At the death of Messalina she was a widow; and Claudius, her uncle, entertaining a design of entering again into the married state, she aspired to an incestuous alliance with him, in competition with Lollia Paulina, a woman of beauty and intrigue, who had been married to C. Caesar.
The two rivals were strongly supported by their (383) respective parties; but Agrippina, by her superior interest with the emperor's favourites, and the familiarity to which her near relation gave her a claim, obtained the preference; and the portentous nuptials of the emperor and his niece were publicly solemnized in the palace.
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 Incredible Journeys Photo Log: Slave numbers uncertain in the Roman Empire
When these figures are analysed, the number of slaves and freedpersons definitely owned by individual members of the gens is small, e.g.
Statilius Taurus Sisenna (consul of AD 16) and his son had six, Statilius Taurus Corvinus (consul ordinarius of AD 45) had eight, and Statilia Messalina, wife of Nero, four or five.
Seneca, a man of extraordinary wealth, believed he was travelling frugally when he had with him one cartload of slaves (most likely four or five) (Ep 87.2).
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 Computer Help Forum -> Nero A Crazy Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
He was married to Domitia Lepida's daughter Messalina (±20-48).
Back in town, Agrippina managed to persuade the rich Passienus Crispus to divorce his wife and marry her.
In 48 the Empress Messalina was executed after cuckolding her elderly husband in public and the Emperor Claudius vowed never to marry again.
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 Statilia Messalina: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Statilia Messalina: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
Statilia Messalina was an Empress and third wife to Emperor Nero (Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68))
Otho[for more, click this link] promised her to marry her, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
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 bible.org: ISBE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
With a view to this she must gain influence over her uncle, the emperor Clandius, who was very susceptible to female charms.
He pronounced a eulogy over her and took a third wife, Statilia Messalina, of whom he had no issue.
Nero, having by his extravagance exhausted the well-filled treasury of Claudius (as Caius did that of Tiberius), was driven to fill his coffers by confiscations of the estates of rich nobles against whom his creature Tigellinus could trump the slightest plausible charge.
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 Nero
Therefore she set out to win the affection of Claudius both for herself and her son, Nero.
"Agrippinas' ambitions were thwarted until 48 A.D. when the Empress Messalina, Claudius' first wife was executed for adultery, perhaps as a result of Agrippinas' own intrigues.
The next year Emperor Claudius married Agrippina after the law was changed to permit the incestuous relationship of uncle and niece.
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 New Oxford Review
He then married Poppaea Sabina (who already had a husband) 12 days after his divorce from Octavia.
Pregnant and not feeling well, she had the effrontery to complain when he came home late from the races, which prompted an early instance of wife abuse "when he kicked her to death." His second wife after Octavia, Statilia Messalina, was also previously married, and Nero "was obliged to murder her husband, a consul."
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
He married twice more after Octavia, Poppaea Sabina, and Statilia Messalina.
He had attempted to murder Octavia, his first wife, several times, but failing each time finally divorced her on the grounds that she was barren, then banishing her and executing her for adultry.
She was the daughter of Messalina and Claudius.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Messalina
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 Ancient History Bulletin 9, 1995: Deification of Roman Women, Marleen B. Flory
In A.D. 63, for example, sacrifices are made by the Arval Brethern for the genius of Nero and the iuno of Poppaea and the iuno of her daughter Claudia (CIL 6.
Three years later a similar double offering was made to the iuno of Statilia Messalina, Nero's third wife, and her husband, the emperor (CIL 6.
The context suggests a half step toward deification, which Nero did confer on both Poppaea and Claudia.
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 Paul Before Festus--Part 2  -  The Power of a Dedicated Life  -  John MacArthur
He wanted to marry his adopted sister Claudia Antonia afterwards when she refused, he killed her.
He married Statilia Messalina after he assassinated her husband.
He spent his career assassinating all the best citizens of Rome because he couldn't stand good people.
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 GlobalEar.com - Global Writing Worth Reading
Following a coup and assassination attempt, he executed 18 of the 41 conspirators - including his beloved Seneca.
He kicked his wife to death, murdered Statilia Messalina's husband and wed her and finally - faced with a rebellion of his legions - he fled Rome and committed suicide.
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 NERO CAESAR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
AD53 married wife1 Octavia, daughter of Claudius and Messalina
AD54/10/13 Claudius dies, poisoned by dish of mushrooms; Nero hailed as imperator I
AD66 married wife3, Statilia Messalina, after her husband, Atticus Vestinus was murdered
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 The Works of Tacitus, vol. 2 (1737): The Online Library of Liberty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
But, that which begot in Nero his enmity to Vestinus, was an intimate fellowship between them.
A recent provocation had likewise occurred, Vestinus had taken to wife Statilia Messalina, though he was aware that amongst her other gallants, Cæsar too was one.
When therefore there appeared no accuser to charge him, no crime to be charged, Nero, since he could not satiate his rancour, under the title and guise of a Judge, flew to the violence of a Tyrant.
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