Poppaea Sabina

LiveScience’s Owen Jarus has put a good one out there … from the latest volume of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, it’s a recently-translated poem all about Nero and Poppaea Sabina, and the latter’s ‘deification’ … here are some excerpts from Jarus’ piece: A just-deciphered ancient Greek poem discovered in Egypt, deifies Poppaea Sabina, the wife of…

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