How Nero Turned a Teenage Boy Into His Dead Wife

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The guards found him hiding beneath an abandoned villa outside Rome, crouched in a wine cellar that smelled of mold and spilled vinegar. In his trembling hand was a small glass vial. Poison, he was barely 20 years old. This was Sporus. Once dressed as an empress, once married to the ruler of the Roman world, now moments away from killing himself ra... Read More