Messalina

(ed.), Prosopographia Imperii Romani, 3 vol., Berlin, 1897-1898. (PIR¹)
* Levick, Barbara, Claudius. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1990.
* Anthony A. Barrett, Agrippina: Sex, Power and Politics in the Early Roman Empire. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1996.

Sources

* Tacitus, Annals, XI. 1, 2, 12, 26-38
* Dio Cassius, Roman History, LX. 14-18, 27-31
* Juvenal, Satires 6, 10, 14
* Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars: Claudius 17, 26, 27, 29, 36, 37, 39; Nero 6; Vitellius 2
* Sextus Aurelius Victor epitome of Book of Caesars, 4
* Pliny the Elder, Natural History 10
* Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews XX. 8; The Wars of the Jews II. 12
* Seneca the Younger, Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii; Octavia, 257-261
* Plutarch, Lives

External links

*Messalina, Agrippina and Closing Years from an article devoted to Claudius
*Messallina from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
*Messalina as an infamous woman.
* Messalina as a woman of influence.
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