Nero’s Death Leads To Sporus’s Tragic End
The Roman populace was generally dissatisfied with the leadership of Nero. He’s notoriously blamed for the Great Fire of 64 A.D., though that likely wasn’t the emperor’s doing. Eventually, Nero made a run for it to escape Rome, after being declared a public enemy by the Senate. Sporus accompanied him.
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Nero was informed by a courier that the senate planned to have him executed. Nero’s private secretary, Epaphroditus, under orders helped Nero drive a dagger through his own neck, as a means of escaping the anticipated public execution.
After Nero’s death, Sporus passed onto the Praetorian guard Nymphidius Sabinus, who kept Sporus in his role of ersatz wife, according to Nero by Edward Champlin. When this second husband figure died in a subsequent coup, Sporus went to Otho, Sabina’s first husband, whom she had divorced to marry Nero.
After becoming emperor in 69 A.D., Vitellius proposed that Sporus play the titular role in “The Rape of Proserpina,” a performance that would serve as part of a gladiatorial spectacle.
According to contemporary sources, Sporus chose to end his life rather than face the humiliation of playing for all of Rome the role he’d played for Nero, Sabinus, and Otho.
The boy’s life ended, but his name has lived on as a synonym for eunuchs and derision, even making it into a line of poetry by Lord Byron in the verse: “Sporus, that mere white curd of ass’s milk? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?”
Kidnapped, mutilated, sexually assaulted, and remembered forever for it — Sporus paid a high price for wearing the face of an empress. Sporus committed suicide rather than reenact the Rape of Proserpina, depicted above.
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