Sporus biography

Sporus avoided this public humiliation by committing suicide. InAlexander Pope wrote a satirical poem, Epistle to Dr Arbuthnotthat mocked the courtier Lord Herveywho had been accused of homosexuality a few years earlier. He scoffs at using so strong a weapon as satire upon a weak and effeminate target like Sporus, "that mere white curd of ass's milk", and in a famous line Pope poses the rhetorical question: " Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

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This article is about the Roman freedman. Hence we cannot regard as appropriate the censure of Sporus of Nicaea, who seems to charge Archimedes with having failed to determine with accuracy the length of the straight line which is equal to the circumference of the circle, to judge by his passage in his Keria where Sporus observes that his own teacher, meaning Philon of Gadara, reduced the matter to more accurate numerical expression than Archimedes did Sporus also wrote on the size of the Sun and on comets.

Sporus's writings and teaching clearly had a large impact on Pappus who describes him as having a high reputation. Other Mathematicians born in Turkey.

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