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A Portrait of Antinous, In Two Parts. An exceptionally beautiful Greek youth, Antinous was a favorite of Roman Emperor Hadrian. Following the young man's mysterious death by drowning in the Nile River, Antinous was proclaimed a god, and portraits of him appeared across the Roman Empire. This focused exhibition unites two marbles portraying.
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In Hadrian and Antinous we'll investigate the difference between man-to-man relations in Rome and pederasty in Athens, and we'll learn why Antinous drowned and why he become, for the first time in history, the first boyfriend ever to be deified. Women are essential to our story but the ancient world was a man's world, as is ours, and Hadrian.
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A unique read,the author did extensive research covering Antinous, Hadrian, political implications of Antinous, the god,and sculptural analysis of antinous among other things. After visiting Villa Adriana, a clearer picture of Hadrian's purposeful architectual plan emerged from reading your book. The book was not too emotional, yet easy to read.
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Antinoüs (born c. 110, Bithynium, Bithynia—died 130, near Besa, Egypt) homosexual lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian, deified by the emperor after his death in Egypt, where he drowned.Hadrian erected temples to him throughout the empire and founded a city, named Antinoöpolis, in his honour, near the place where he died.An obelisk, now in Rome near the Porta Maggiore, marked his tomb.
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Hadrian became enamoured with Antinous, a younger man renowned for his beauty and invited him to join his tours of his Empire. In AD 130 Antinous drowned in the river Nile and Hadrian was devastated. Reports said that Hadrian wept for him 'like a woman'. Hadrian mourned Antinous' death intensely and publically rather than in private as.
FOLLOWING HADRIAN Portraits of Antinous
Paperback. $8.00 5 Used from $3.54 6 New from $8.00. The moving story of Hadrian and Antinous has spanned the ages not only as the bond of two men's love, but equally as an eternal mystery as to why a youth forfeited his life to perpetuate that of his lover. The book is an historical work, as historically correct as I could make it.
How Roman Emperor Hadrian's Gay Lover Became a God
Antinous, also called Antinoös, (/ æ n ˈ t ɪ n oʊ ʌ s /; Greek: Ἀντίνοος; c. 111 - c. 130) was a Greek youth from Bithynia and a favourite and lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian. Following his premature death before his 20th birthday, Antinous was deified on Hadrian's orders, being worshipped in both the Greek East and Latin West, sometimes as a god (θεός, theós) and.
Bust of Antinous, found at Hadrian’s Villa in 1790, Vatican Museums FOLLOWING HADRIAN
A.15-1974. On display in room 117. Hadrian, who is commemorated on this gold aureus coin, was known as one of the 'Five Good Emperors' of ancient Rome, who maintained almost a century of peace for the empire. A patron of the arts and a lover of Hellenic culture, Hadrian's love for the Greek youth Antinous was commemorated by him in erotic.
"Hadrian and Antinous an encounter, 19 centuries later" National Archaeological Museum
Hadrian (born January 24, 76 ce —died July 10, 138, Baiae [Baia], near Naples [Italy]) Roman emperor (117-138 ce), the emperor Trajan's cousin and successor, who was a cultivated admirer of Greek civilization and who unified and consolidated Rome's vast empire. He was the third of the so-called Five Good Emperors.. Early life. Hadrian's Roman forebears left Picenum in Italy for.
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For instance, the Roman poet Prudentius writes that the emperor Hadrian had a young eunuch Antinous as a lover (he was the first emperor to make his gay relationship "official"). Two other writers, Statius and Martial, contemplate the beauty of another young castrate: Earinus, a cupbearer notable for his relationship with the emperor Domitian.
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The most famous of Hadrian's male lovers was a young Bithynian called Antinous, possibly a slave, who Hadrian met while on a visit to his home town. Antinous accompanied the emperor, along with his wife, Sabina, throughout the longest tour of his reign, culminating in a visit to Egypt, where they saw the tombs of Alexander the Great and.
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Hadrian and Antinous held a lion hunt in the Libyan desert; a poem on the subject by the Greek Pankrates is the earliest evidence that they travelled together. While Hadrian and his entourage were sailing on the Nile, Antinous drowned. The exact circumstances surrounding his death are unknown, and accident, suicide, murder and religious.
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By the time Antinous was about 18, and Hadrian was in his early fifties, the pair were inseparable. Romantic relationships between younger and older men had been socially accepted in ancient Greece .
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The relationship between Hadrian and Antinous is, thus, not only seen as gay, but something to be aspired to. This deep romanticization of their relationship normalizes pederasty, embedding it into the queer identity. Looking back at pederasty and labelling it 'queer' eliminates the distance between the two and creates a space for pederasty.
Hadrian and Antinous How Roman Emperor Hadrian's Gay Lover Became a God
Fri 18 Jul 2008 19.00 EDT. Within hours of taking the throne, in August AD117, the emperor Hadrian made one major strategic decision. He issued the order to withdraw the Roman troops from Iraq (or.
