Sporus

Family: Roman · Role: boy · First appears: Nero 28

Life events

Nero castrated Sporus and attempted to transform him into a woman.(Nero 28)
- With: Nero
- “He gelded the boy Sporus, and endeavoured to transform him into a woman.”
Nero married Sporus with formal marriage rites and treated him as his wife.(Nero 28)
- With: Nero
- “He even went so far as to marry him, with all the usual formalities of a marriage settlement, the rose-coloured nuptial veil, and a numerous company at the wedding.”
Sporus had been married to Nero.(Nero 29)
- With: Nero
- “in the same way that Sporus had been married to himself”
Sporus presented Nero with a ring carved with the Rape of Proserpine.(Nero 46)
- With: Nero
- “While he was taking the omens, Sporus presented him with a ring, the stone of which had carved upon it the Rape of Proserpine.”

with Nero (Nero castrated Sporus and attempted to transform him into a woman.) “He gelded the boy Sporus, and endeavoured to transform him into a woman.”
married with Nero (Nero married Sporus.) “He even went so far as to marry him, with all the usual formalities of a marriage settlement, the rose-coloured nuptial veil, and a numerous company at the wedding.”

married with Nero “to whom he was married in the same way that Sporus had been married to himself”

with Nero (Sporus presented Nero with a ring.) “While he was taking the omens, Sporus presented him with a ring, the stone of which had carved upon it the Rape of Proserpine.”

with Nero (Nero entreated Sporus to wail and lament.) “One while, he begged of Sporus to begin to wail and lament;”

Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.