MessalinaThis is the story of Messalina third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world. According to the Roman historians Tacitus and Suetonius, the Empress Messalina was a sexually insatiable schemer. The tales they told about her including a twenty four hour sex competition with a prostitute have taken deep root in the Western imagination, but Messalinas real story is much more complex. In her reappraisal