Sporus

Sporus

Sporus (died 69 CE) was a young slave boy whom the Roman Emperor Nero had castrated and married as his Empress during his tour of Greece in 66–67 CE, allegedly in order for him to play the role of his wife, Poppaea Sabina, who had died the previous year. Ancient historians generally portrayed the relationship between Nero and Sporus as an "abomination"; Suetonius places his account of the Nero–Sporus relationship in his "scandalous accounts of Nero's sexual aberrations," between his raping a Vestal Virgin and committing incest with his mother. Some think Nero used his marriage to Sporus to assuage the guilt he felt for allegedly kicking his pregnant wife Poppaea to death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sporus has received more than 2,726,223 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Sporus is the 2,161st most popular politician (up from 7,379th in 2019).