Messala (character)

Messala is a fictional character from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.

About

Messala is a Roman nobleman and the son of a Roman tax collector;[1] Judah Ben-Hur's boyhood friend and rival.[2]

References

  1. Wallace, Ben-Hur (1880), p. 812.
  2. Morsberger and Morsberger, p. 301 and 303.