Sporus
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Sporus' was a young man who may have been a puer delicatus whom the Roman Emperor Nero allegedly favored, had castrated, and married.[1][2][3][4] The Roman historian Cassius Dio identifies Sporus as a freedman, a formerly enslaved person who had been released from slavery.[2][3]
References
- ↑ Ancient History Sourcebook: Suetonius: De Vita Caesarum—Nero, c. 110 C.E.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cassius Dio Roman History: LXII, 28 – LXIII, 12–13
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Champlin, 2005, p.145
- ↑ Smith, 1849, p.897
