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.
