#messaline

[verseau-lion]

[7pleiades7]

Messalina (Messaline), (detail), (1884), by Eugène Cyrille Brunet (French, 1828 – 1921), Carrara marble, 185 cm (72.8 in) x 50 cm (19.6 in) x 60 cm (23.6 in), Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes, Rennes

[thedivergentrealities]

Doctor Who S04 E06 "The Doctor's Daughter". The Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) arriving with his companions Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) and Martha Jones (Freema Agyman) in a tunnel of the planet Messaline.

[philoursmars]

Au Louvre-Lens, une expo : “Rome, la Cité et l’Empire” :

- les 2 premières : buste féminin - 50 apr. J-C.

- les 2 suivantes : les skyphos “de Tibère" - Boscoreale, 30 apr. J-C.

- médaillon monétaire, le “Solidus de Constantin" - Sidi Bu Zeid, Lybie, 350 apr. J-C.

- les 2 d’après : Messaline portant Britannicus - Rome, 45 apr. J-C.

- les 2 dernières : statue de Livie - Rome, 15 apr. J-C.

[pleasuresoftheduke]

Thévenet dans Messaline | Reutligner (C.1900s)

[ladylabsinthe]

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Messaline - 1901

[noshitshakespeare]

Is there any evidence in Twelfth Night as to what's going in in Messaline? Because as far as I'm aware, Sebastian of Messaline is dead and the twins are both in Illyria, so... anarchy?

I don’t think there’s any information about what’s going on in Messaline during the events of Twelfth Night. In fact, it’s only in Act 5 and the reunion of the twins that you find out they're from Messaline, and it’s a place invented by Shakespeare (unlike Illyria) so it probably doesn’t really matter.

I don’t quite understand what you mean by anarchy, though (sorry). It’s implied that Sebastian and Viola are of noble birth, but it’s never suggested that they’re royalty, so it’s unlikely that Messaline will fall into anarchy just because they’re not there and their father is dead. The ‘of Messaline’ addition to their names is just information about where they’re from.

[7pleiades7]

Messalina (Messaline), (detail), (1884), by Eugène Cyrille Brunet (French, 1828 – 1921), Carrara marble, 185 cm (72.8 in) x 50 cm (19.6 in) x 60 cm (23.6 in), Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes, Rennes