- account,
writes that
Sporus bore an
uncanny resemblance to
Poppaea and that Nero
called Sporus by her name.
Scholars have
deduced that
Sporus was
likely an epithet...
- mathematicians.
Sporus criticized Archimedes for not
producing a more
accurate approximation of π. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson,
Edmund F., "
Sporus of Nicaea"...
- as follows: Let
Sporus tremble –"What? that
thing of silk,
Sporus, that mere
white curd of ****'s milk?
Satire or sense, alas! can
Sporus feel? Who breaks...
-
Egyptian manner and entombed; it is not
known where. In AD 67, Nero
married Sporus, a
young boy who is said to have
greatly resembled Poppaea. Nero had him...
- AD, Nero
castrated and
married a
young freedman named Sporus.
According to C****ius Dio,
Sporus bore an
uncanny resemblance to Poppaea, and Nero even called...
- on the emperor's late
journey in June 68, with Epaphroditus,
Phaon and
Sporus, and was with him at his death. De Caesaribus, ****tus
Aurelius Victor. v...
-
castrated slave Sporus in 67,
Calvia was made the "mistress of wardrobe" (a
position akin to that of a
handmaiden or lady-in-waiting) of
Sporus (epitropeia...
- ISBN 978-0-674-01822-8.
History of same-****
unions Homo****uality in
ancient Rome
Sporus Ancient History Sourcebook: Suetonius: De Vita Caesarum--Nero, c. 110 C...
- of the
former emperor Caligula. He also took Nero's wife,
Sporus, as his own wife.
Sporus, who was a
young male freedman, had been
married to Nero (after...
- the
Opposition and as
cited above, by
Alexander Pope in his "
Sporus" portrait: "Let
Sporus tremble/What that
thing of silk...His wit all
seesaw between...
