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Sporus was a young slave boy whom the Roman Emperor Nero had castrated and married as his Empress during his tour of Greece in 66–67 CE, allegedly in order for him to play the role of his wife, Poppaea Sabina, who had died the previous year.
Nero is an Italian-British-Spanish television film, part of the Imperium series; it was made film available on DVD as of November 2005 in the U.S. and Canada. Produced by EOS Entertainment and Lux Vide for RAI and Telecinco . Plot. As a young boy, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus witnesses the mad Emperor Caligula kill his father and exile his mother.
May 23, 2004 · Nero: Directed by Paul Marcus. With Hans Matheson, Laura Morante, Rike Schmid, Matthias Habich. A six-episode mini-series covering five centuries of the Roman Empire.
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Mar 10, 2023 · Sporus’ painful tale of gender-bending survival ends in 69AD, when Rome’s new new caesar, Vitellius, ordered he star in a gladiatorial reenactment of The Rape of Proserpina—the same tragedy...
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May 17, 2018 · Luke Nicosia (’21) discusses the surprisingly sympathetic portrait of the Roman emperor Nero that emerges from a 2004 film by British Director Paul Cohen released on television in the Imperium series.
Jun 7, 2021 · In a more recent popular depiction, a TV movie directed by the late Paul Marcus, Nero is represented as a pretty-boy prince traumatized by having witnessed his father being murdered by the...
Instead it is assumed that Sporus belongs to a subset known in Rome as a “puer delicatus” - a “delicate boy” who were known for their youthful and effeminate looks and generally groomed for sexual favours by their master. A more well known term might be “catamite”.
