![]() ![]() Having populated Empire and his eleven previous ancient-Rome novels with actual historical figures, Saylor calls Sporus “one of history’s first known transsexuals.” Summarily castrated, Sporus becomes Nero’s eunuch-spouse, living the rest of his life as a woman. Also in this followup to Saylor’s 2008 epic Roma, Emperor Nero falls for a boy named Sporus, who resembles Nero’s dead wife. Mount Vesuvius erupts, Christians are slaughtered, and Rome burns in Steven Saylor‘s new novel Empire, which spans the years 14 CE through 141 CE.
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