Antinous or Antinoös (Greek: Ἀντίνοος) born circa 110 or 111 CE, died 130 CE), was the lover of the Roman Emperor Hadrian For other uses, see number 110. ... For other uses, see number 111. ... For other uses, see number 130. ... Roman Emperor is the term historians use to refer to rulers of the Roman Empire, after the epoch conventionally named the Roman Republic. ... Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus (January 24, 76 – July 10, 138), known as Hadrian in English, was Roman emperor from 117 – 138, and a member of the gens Aelia. ...

Bust of Antinous in the Palazzo Altemps museum in Rome

Image File history File links Download high resolution version (960x1280, 468 KB) Bust of Antinous, from the Palazzo Altemps in Rome, Italy. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (960x1280, 468 KB) Bust of Antinous, from the Palazzo Altemps in Rome, Italy. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Museo Nazionale Romano The National Museum of Rome (Museo Nazionale Romano in Italian) is a set of museums in Rome, Italy, split between various branches across the city. ...

Biography

He was born to a Greek family in Bithynion-Claudiopolis, in the Roman province of Bithynia in what is now north-west Turkey. It is thought he joined the entourage of the Emperor when Hadrian passed through Bithynia in about 124, and soon became his eromenos (lover) who accompanied him on his many journeys through the empire. Another version has it that Hadrian had the empire searched for the most beautiful youth, and chose Antinous. Their relationship is understood to have followed the pattern of traditional Greek pederastic love affairs. Bolu (Greek Bithynion, Latin Bithynium or Claudiopolis) is a town in Turkey, and administrative center of the Bolu Province. ... Map of the Roman Empire, with the provinces, after 120. ... Bithynia was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thracian Bosporus and the Euxine (today Black Sea). ... Events Roman emperor Hadrian begins to rebuild the Olympeion in Athens. ... In the pederastic tradition of Classical Athens, the eromenos (Greek ἐρόμενος, pl. ... Pederastic courtship scene Athenian black-figure amphora, 5th c. ...

In October 130, according to Hadrian, "Antinous was drowned in Nilus." This is the only contemporaneous statement made - significantly by the one person in a position to "testify" at an "inquaestio" whose word was above reproach - and the sentence structure and meaning are very precise - whether translated from the Latin or The Greek. "Antinous was drowned in Nilus" - is the one statement quoted by all the pro-Hadrianic Historians - the libels that Antinous - a superb athlete, drowned "by accident" - committed suicide or was "sacrificed" by Hadrian are post obitum modifications by anti-Hadrian Christian "historians." It is not known whether his death was the result of accident, suicide, murder or religious sacrifice. One theory states that his relationship with Hadrian was socially acceptable until he reached adulthood, and then he had to die, since he might no longer be the passive party in intercourse within the relationship. For other uses, see number 130. ... Marcus Aurelius and members of the Imperial family offer sacrifice in gratitude for success against Germanic tribes: contemporary bas-relief, Capitoline Museum, Rome Sacrifice (from a Middle English verb meaning to make sacred, from Old French, from Latin sacrificium : sacer, sacred; sacred + facere, to make) is commonly known as the...

Legacy

After his death, the grief of the emperor knew no bounds, causing the most extravagant respect to be paid to his memory. Not only were cities called after him, medals struck with his effigy, and statues erected to him in all parts of the empire, but he was also raised to the rank of the demi-deities, temples were built for his worship in Bithynia, Mantineia in Arcadia, and Athens, festivals celebrated in his honour and oracles delivered in his name. The city of Antinopolis or Antinoe was founded on the ruins of Besa where he died (Dio Cassius lix. 11; Spartianus, Hadrian). Mantinea – Greek: Mαντινεία Mantineia, modern romanizations: Mantinia, Mandineia or Mandinia; and for a time Antigonia (Greek: Αντιγόνεια) also transliterated as Antigonea and Antigoneia – is a city in Arcadia in the central Peloponnese that was the site of two significant battles in Classical Greek history. ... Arcadia or Arkadía (Greek Αρκαδία; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus. ... Athens (Greek: Αθήνα, Athína IPA: ) is the capital and largest city of Greece. ... Consulting the Oracle by John William Waterhouse An oracle is a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion; an infallible authority, usually spiritual in nature. ... Antinopolis (modern Sheikh Ibada) was the city commemorating Antinous, which was founded to commemorate his deified lover by Hadrian, on the east bank of the Nile, not far from the site in Upper Egypt where Antinous drowned in 130. ...

Antinous as Osiris, from Hadrian Villa in Tivoli.

After deification, Antinous was associated with and depicted as the Ancient Egyptian god Osiris, associated with the rebirth of the Nile. Antinous was also depicted as the Roman Bacchus, a god related to fertility, cutting vine leaves. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (700x860, 80 KB) Description: Egyptian Antinous represented with Osiris attributes, found in the villa of Hadrian in Tivoli. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (700x860, 80 KB) Description: Egyptian Antinous represented with Osiris attributes, found in the villa of Hadrian in Tivoli. ... For other uses, see Osiris (disambiguation). ... Khafres Pyramid (4th dynasty) and Great Sphinx of Giza (c. ... For other uses, see Osiris (disambiguation). ... The Nile (Arabic: ‎, translit: , Ancient Egyptian iteru) is a major north-flowing river in Africa, generally regarded as the longest river—though not the most voluminous—on Earth. ... Bacchus is the name of: the Roman god Bacchus, known to the Greeks as Dionysus the Christian martyr Saint Bacchus, companion to Saint Sergius; see: Saint Sergius the asteroid 2063 Bacchus the Bacchus grape variety, grown predominantly in Germany the Bacchus (painting) by Leonardo da Vinci the comic book Bacchus...

As a result, Antinous is one of the best-preserved faces from the ancient world. Many busts, gems and coins represent Antinous as the ideal type of youthful beauty, often with the attributes of some special god. They include a colossal bust in the Vatican, a bust in the Louvre, a bas-relief from the Villa Albani, a statue in the Capitoline museum, another in Berlin, another in the Lateran and one in the Fitzwilliam Museum; and many more may be seen in museums across Europe. There are also statues in many archaeological museums in Greece including the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, the archaeological museums of Patras, Chalkis and Delphi. Although these may well be idealised images, they demonstrate what all contemporary writers described as Antinous's extraordinary beauty. The Louvre Museum (French: Musée du Louvre) in Paris, France, is the largest, oldest, most important and famous art gallery and museum in the world. ... Bas relief is a method of sculpting which entails carving or etching away the surface of a flat piece of stone or metal. ... Alessandro Albani (Urbino October 15, 1692–Rome December 11, 1779), of the distinguished family of Urbino that was descended from refugees from Albania when it fell to the Ottoman Turks in the 15th century, was a collector and patron of the arts, who built Villa Albani, 1760, to house his... Michelangelos design for Capitoline Hill, now home to the Capitoline Museums. ... Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ... Late Baroque façade of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, completed after a competition for the design by Alessandro Galilei in 1735 Lateran and Laterano are the shared names of several architectural projects throughout Rome and Vatican City. ... The main entrance to the Fitzwilliam Museum, facing Trumpington Sreet. ...

His representation in art was the subject of the Henry Moore Institute's 2006 summer exhibition. [1] The Henry Moore Foundation is a registered charity established for education and promotion of the fine arts — in particular, to advance understanding of the works of Henry Moore. ...

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Sources and references

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. [2]
• Marguerite Yourcenar's 1951 historical novel, Memoirs of Hadrian (Mémoires d'Hadrien) is a fictional account of the relationship, as told by the Emperor
• Rousseau, George (2004). Marguerite Yourcenar: A Biography. London: Haus Publishing. ISBN 1-904341-28-4
• Dietrich, Antinoos (1884)
• Dynes, Wayne R. Antinous. 2Dynes, Wayne R. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. New York and London, Garland Publishing, 1990 pp. 67-68.
• Ebers, Der Kaiser (1881).
• Laban, Der Gemütsausdruck des Antinoos (1891)
• Lambert, R., Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinous (New York, 1984)
• Levezow, Über den Antinous (1808)

Wallace, Alexander, "THREE GODS TALKING!" Hadrian House Press, 2006 Encyclopædia Britannica, the 11th edition The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911) is perhaps the most famous edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... Marguerite Yourcenar was the pseudonym of French novelist, Marguerite Cleenewerck de Crayencour (June 8, 1903 - December 17, 1987). ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Cover of the English language edition. ...

External links

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• Virtual Museum: Portraits of Antinous
• The first Antinous Forum (new)
• Antinous - various facets of the Antinous topic
• The Shrine of Antinous
• Sculpture of Antinous at the Lady lever Art Gallery
• The Temple of Antinous, Ecclesia Antinoi
• Aedicula Antinoi, Ecclesia Antinoi
• The Sacred Antinous - Sweeping historical fiction in the form of Sacred Texts for the living cult of Antinous
• Hadrian's life and his love for Antinous
• Memoirs of Hadrian, an upcoming movie by John Boorman
• [3], an exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute
• A Website dedicated to the "Worship of Antinous"

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