Ale’s Reviews > The Twelve Caesars > Status Update

Nero kidnapping people inside his theater while performing as a woman going into labor is somehow not one of the most deranged things I've learned from this book so far.

"We also read about men being so bored with the music and the applause that they furtively dropped down from the wall at the back, or even shammed dead and got themselves carried away to be buried."

Sublime.

"For if only one-tenth of the stories which have made Messalina a byword for lasciviousness are true, she was phenomenally oversexed."

Crazy unhinged gossip going on in this book. Loving it.