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The Roman Emperor Nero. A mansion-building arsonist with a passion for twinks…or was he? 


In this episode, Jared and Abe pull back the curtain on Nero’s pervy reign to explore his marriage to Sporus, the boy who became empress of Rome. But who was Sporus? What drew Nero to him? And, most importantly, when exactly was the fiddle invented? Tangents include, but are not limited to, Latin phraseology, international sharts, and the eternal battle between AD and CE. 


SOURCES


The Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius 

Annals by Tacitus

Roman History by Cassius Dio

Nero by Edward Champlin

Jennifer Ingleheart, “Introduction: Romosexuality: Rome, Homosexuality, and Reception”, Ancient Rome and the Construction of Modern Homosexual Identities

Shaun Tougher, “The Aesthetics of Castration: The Beauty of Roman Eunuchs, Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages ed. Larissa Tracy 

David Woods, “Nero and Sporus” 

The boy that Emperor Nero made his “wife”: What the tragedy of the castrated Sporus tells us about homosexuality in ancient Rome.


CHAPTERS: \n00:00 Introduction\n02:22 My Annals\n05:40 Five Ws \n08:54 Sources \n12:05 Nero's biography \n19:52 Nero's personality \n26:34 Roman sexuality \n31:17 Nero's sexuality \n33:58 Sporus and Nero \n40:47 Nero's downfall \n49:09 Sporus post-Nero \n52:10 Follow us on socials!!

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