Delicatus

Delicatus
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 being sentenced to play the Earth-Goddess in the arena.

World Fantasy Award winner S.P. Somtow weaves a vivid adventure about one of the most colorful personalities in ancient Rome. Delicatus, the first volume in a trilogy, speaks of Sporus, from his enslavement by pirates in a remote corner of the Empire to his meeting with the great satirist Petronius and the woman to whom he bears a striking resemblance, the beautiful Poppaea with her manipulative plans to seduce the Emperor Nero and become Divine Empress. $2.99 on Kindle.
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The Last Stoic

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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 and through the writings of Marcus Aurelius, learns what it means to be a Stoic and how to survive and thrive in an unjust world. Shop now.