linking back to Trimalchio and the other puer delicati - the affection Nero had for Sporus is explained away by his similarity in looks to Poppaea, but the affection Nero placed on Sporus may have been seen as vulgar, or as we saw with Domitian and the poems of Statius may be quite common of the relationships between Roman men and puer delicati. pp. ISBN 978-0-674-01822-8. Dion Cassius. [3], Nero had Sporus castrated, [lower-alpha 1] and during their marriage, Nero had Sporus appear in public as his wife wearing the regalia that was customary for Roman empresses. Caesar was dead at this point but Antonius was leading on his legacy too in some extent, not just Octavian. After Nymphidius' death, Sporus would, in the year 69, become involved with Otho,[4] who was also killed by his enemies. However, in order to do so, he had him castrated, as it was customary with puer delicatus, so that his boyish looks wouldn’t change. 5 ; Smith, William (1849). It was to him, and not to his wife Messalina, that Nero turned as he began the ritual lamentations before taking his own life. The Concubine Who Became The Cruelest Ruler In ChinaThe Story Of The Beautiful Woman Who Betrayed Her People And Led To Their DestructionThis Spanish Queen Loved Her Husband So Much She Went Mad, {% $moment(article.publishedAt).format('LL') %}, The Concubine Who Became The Cruelest Ruler In China, The Story Of The Beautiful Woman Who Betrayed Her People And Led To Their Destruction, This Spanish Queen Loved Her Husband So Much She Went Mad. He was addressed as 'Lady', 'Empress' or 'Mistress' and considered to be Nero's 'boy toy'. He never loved Nero back. Specifically these were slave boys and not free Roman men (puer, Latin for boy, is to be distinguished with vir, Latin for man - which a slave would not be called regardless of his age). To do so, he planned on making him reenact the episode of Proserpina’s abduction during a gladiator show, and naturally, this performance involved terrible violence and rape. Sporus derives from the ancient Greek word σπορά spora, meaning "seed, sowing," related to σπόρος sporos, "sowing," and σπείρειν speirein, "to sow." So we can assume the Romans would have reacted to Nero’s marriage to Sporus in certain ways relating to their own understanding of marriage and relationships between men and puer delicati: they would not be shocked, outraged etc. Sporus was a young boy whom the Roman Emperor Nero favored, had castrated, and married.. to avoid the humiliating show. In addition to other forms of address, Sporus was termed "Lady", "Empress", and "Mistress". Regarding Antonius’s allegations about Octavian and Julius Caesar. It’s always looked in the context regarding Octavian.

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