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 […]
The Last Stoic
October 1, 2014 By
The Last Stoic is a historical fiction that takes place in two parallel settings: ancient Rome and modern America. The story unfolds with the same characters but the setting alternates between ancient and modern, the similarities between the two time periods are so strong. The main character gets imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit […]
