The Boy Who Was Turned Into A Sex-Doll

  

The Roman Empress Poppaea 

Not everybody loved Poppaea Augusta Sabina (31-65), but the Roman emperor, Nero, was totally besotted by her. His infatuation was one major reason for him to have his mother, Agrippina, killed when she resented his plans of marrying Poppaea who was his mistress, although married to one of his friends. At that time he himself was married to the stepdaughter of Agrippina from her marriage to emperor Claudius, namely Octavia. 

Nero was just as brutal as he looks, and one of the many people he had killed was the son of Poppaea, Rufius Crispinus, whom he considered a rival to the throne. No matter whom, and no matter what he saw as endangering the Empirical power, his mother had worked tirelessly to obtain for him was accepted in his life: He was relentless: Both Agrippina, Octavia and her then husband were killed when he set his will at marrying Poppaea. When he married her, she was pregnant with his daughter, Claudia, but the baby only lived for a couple of months. Some time later, Poppaea got pregnant once again, but that didn't protect her from the cruelty of her new husband, Nero. In a heated argument, Nero kicked her in the stomach, which led to her premature death.
 

In his looks, Nero reminds me of Mussolini: Both of them looks like what might be called "human buffaloes" 

Well, Nero, who really was totally besotted by Poppaea mourned her death - and the lack of her body. That's why he had her embalmed in fragrant oils and spices before putting her to rest in the mausoleum of Emperor Augustus. Still mourning, he started to look for a substitute of his wife, and his eye fell upon a woman who resembled her in her looks. Being a man of wants and demands that weren't fit to be subdued, he sent for this woman and kept her for a while. However, even though she may have resembled Poppaea in her looks, he found out that she wasn't like her and thus not what he was looking for, so he let his wandering eye go on another search. Unluckily for the one it fell upon, he did find someone who presumably was the spitting image of the dead Poppaea, namely a slave by the name of Sporus (died 69).

A slave becoming an empress, that would be something, but that was not what happened. Sporus wasn't a woman, but an adolescent boy, whom Nero had married, before or after he had him castrated to keep his uncanny likeness to his dead wife. When they appeared in public, Sporus wore the clothes and regalia of the Empress, and Nero called him by her name. One might say, that the boy Sporus lost his real life in order to please the emperor as best he could. 

“This Sporus, decked out with the finery of the empresses and riding in a litter, he took with him to the assizes and marts of Greece, and later at Rome through the Street of the Images, fondly kissing him from time to time.“ (Suetonius) 

However, Sporus didn't survive the downfall of Nero in 68. When he learnt that he was to be raped in public as some kind of extra humiliation of the by then dead Nero, he committed suicide. All in all a grusome tale of all kinds of cruelty and abuse!  

 

https://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/empire/nero.html

https://www.historyhit.com/facts-about-emperor-nero/

 

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