Nero and Sporus

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>inally available in one volume! The decadence of Imperial Rome comes to life in S.P. Somtow's Literary Titan Award-winning novel about one of ancient history's wildest characters.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The historian Suetonius tells us that the Emperor Nero emasculated and married his slave Sporus the spitting image of murdered Empress Poppaea. But history has more tidbits about Sporus who went from puer delicatus to Empress to one Emperor and concubine to another and ended up being sentenced to play the Earth-Goddess in the arena.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>from </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Literary Titan</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>If you like your historical fiction brutal and beautiful if you're into mythology reimagined through a queer lens if you can handle morally messy characters and poetic trauma-this is for you. Fans of Mary Renault Madeline Miller or even </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Game of Thrones</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> ... will find something to love here.</span></p>