Delicatus: from Slave Boy to Empress in Imperial Rome

by S P Somtow and S.P. Somtow

Book Overview

The decadence of Imperial Rome comes to life in S.P. Somtow's Literary Titan Award-winning novel about one of ancient history's wildest characters.

The historian Suetonius tells us that the Emperor Nero emasculated and married his slave Sporus, the spitting image of murdered Empress Poppaea. But history has more tidbits about Sporus, who went from "puer delicatus" to Empress to one Emperor and concubine to another, and ended up...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1940999359
• ISBN13: 9781940999357
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Diplodocus Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"