Sporus was one of the four companions on the emperor's last journey in June of 68 AD, [4] along with Epaphroditus, Neophytus, and Phaon. It was Sporus, and not his wife Messalina, to …

Oct 8, 2024 · Sporus was a boy who caught the attentions of Nero. The notorious emperor had him forcibly castrated and then married him to be his empress, perhaps to replace his former …

Mar 10, 2023 · The emperor fled the city, bringing only a freedman and Sporus with him to a countryside hideout. There, Nero begged Sporus to pray and help him commit suicide, but his …

Sporus was a young slave boy whom the Roman emperor Nero castrated and married during his tour of Greece in 66–67 AD, allegedly in order for him to play the rol...

Feb 29, 2024 · But he also does something as surprising for the time like Nero had when he transformed Sporus into a woman. He turns his dead lover, who is neither a citizen nor a …

In one of history's most disturbing tales of power and obsession, meet Sporus—a beautiful Roman freedman whose life was forever destroyed by Emperor Nero's twisted grief.

The details of Sporus’s life after Nero’s death are shrouded in mystery, with limited contemporary records surviving. Following Nero’s downfall and the subsequent civil war in Rome, Sporus …

Apr 10, 2025 · Sporus, a young boy of remarkable tale, captured the attention of the Roman emperor Nero in a unique and profound way. Born at around 50 AD, Sporus's life took an …

Aug 25, 2020 · After Emperor Nero allegedly kicked his wife to death in 65 A.D., he had a slave boy named Sporus castrated — and then married him.

Rather than an act of love on Sporus' part, as Boswell contends, Woods argues that Sporus might have felt compelled to accompany Nero to the being unsure of his own fate in a post-Neronian …