Russia s Catherine the Great was the subject of vicious rumours about her sex life, including the untrue claim that she was crushed to death by a horse when trying to be intimate with it.
Suicide was a last resort escape from the drama of Emperor Nero’s love life, and befell his first wife, his second wife’s husband and his eunuch bride.
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<p>After the empress Valeria Messalina's fatal fall from favor with her husband Claudius, her name and image were stricken from public and private spheres, an episode that reveals the tightly-regulated dissemination of imperial women's images (and puts current "cancel culture" panic and whisper networks into perspective). </p>