Poppaea Sabina lived her life as a patrician Roman woman on a top-tier stage in the middle decades of the first century A.D. For an author researching and writing about that time period, it would be hard to ignore her flamboyant rise and catastrophic fall. Even though Poppaea’s role in Rubies of the Viper is small, I… Read More »Poppaea Sabina by Martha Marks