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slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History Magazine.

Nagging wives, villainous murderesses and insatiable nymphomaniacs.

The stories of ancient Rome are littered with such female figures, and the women of the

Julio-Claudian dynasty are especially infamous.

But where do these salacious stories come from, and why have they endured for centuries?

Joan Smith, journalist and the author of a new book on the subject, joined Eleanor Evans to delve

into the Latin sources behind long-surviving

tales of women's bad behaviour in Rome, and consider what darker truths they might conceal.

Joan, thank you so much for joining us on the History Extra podcast today to talk about your new book.

Unfortunately, she was an infamaniac. And I think we have to start with your

eye-catching title. Could you please start by giving listeners the story behind this?

Yes, so I've been going up and down to Rome quite a lot doing research for the book,

and looking at one of the advantages of this period is that there are a lot of images of women.

So we know what they looked like as well as what happened to them, which is an innovation in Roman history. So I was in the Palazzo Massimo, which is in the centre of Rome, and it's

one of the great national museums. And I was looking at this very famous upstairs room where

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