• account, writes that Sporus bore an uncanny resemblance to Poppaea and that Nero called Sporus by her name. Scholars have deduced that Sporus was likely an epithet...
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  • mathematicians. Sporus criticized Archimedes for not producing a more accurate approximation of π. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Sporus of Nicaea"...
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  • as follows: Let Sporus tremble –"What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks...
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    the Opposition and as cited above, by Alexander Pope in his "Sporus" portrait: "Let Sporus tremble/What that thing of silk...His wit all seesaw between...
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    Egyptian manner and entombed; it is not known where. In AD 67, Nero married Sporus, a young boy who is said to have greatly resembled Poppaea. Nero had him...
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  • ISBN 978-0-674-01822-8. History of same-sex unions Homosexuality in ancient Rome Sporus Ancient History Sourcebook: Suetonius: De Vita Caesarum--Nero, c. 110 C...
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  • com<!. 2008-09-26. Retrieved 2009-07-13. ":: Mahşer-i Cümbüş ::. Tiyatro Sporu | Beyin Fırtınası - Ana Sayfa". Mahsericumbus.com. Retrieved 2009-07-13...
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  • on the emperor's late journey in June 68, with Epaphroditus, Phaon and Sporus, and was with him at his death. De Caesaribus, Sextus Aurelius Victor. v...
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    his own literary career and includes famous portraits of Lord Hervey ("Sporus"), Thomas Hay, 9th Earl of Kinnoull ("Balbus") and Addison ("Atticus")....
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    freedmen and household officers reinstalled, including the young castrated boy Sporus whom Nero had taken in marriage and Otho also would live intimately with...
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