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How Antinous Died on the Nile: The Mystery, The Theories, The Ancient Sources
In October of 130 CE, somewhere near the Egyptian town of Hermopolis Magna, a young man drowned in the Nile. That's the one fact everyone agrees on. Everythi...
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Hadrian and Antinous: The Real Timeline
Movies and Pinterest boards tend to compress this into "emperor falls in love with beautiful boy, boy dies tragically...
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Who Was Antinous, Really?
If you've landed on this page because a bust, a print, or a Pinterest board caught your eye and you're wondering *wai...
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The Cult of Antinous
Most gods take centuries to accumulate followers. Antinous acquired an empire-wide religion in less than a decade — ...
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Antinous 101
He was a Greek boy from a provincial backwater who became the companion of the most powerful man in the world, drow...
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