It is A.D. 69 and the Emperor Nero has been declared "Damnatio Memoriae" his memory is to be erased from the world. But what will happen to Sporus, once a slave boy, then the emasculated Empress of the mad Caesar? In the turbulent "Year of the Four Emperors" Sporus must play a different role with each of the men who are seizing the throne before being sentenced to play out the most spectacular role of all the Goddess of the Underworld.
The third volume of the award-nominated trilogy by S.P. Somtow, this work completes a tale of magnificence, corruption and decadence seen from a unique worm's eye view of a character who is usually relegated to a footnote in history.
Genre: Historical
The third volume of the award-nominated trilogy by S.P. Somtow, this work completes a tale of magnificence, corruption and decadence seen from a unique worm's eye view of a character who is usually relegated to a footnote in history.
Genre: Historical
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