Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinous |
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The deification of Antinous has scandalised Christian posterity from the days of the early Fathers to our own . Raising a mere boy , and one of dubious morals at that , to godhead was seized upon as exemplifying the profane bankruptcy ...
The deification of Antinous has scandalised Christian posterity from the days of the early Fathers to our own . Raising a mere boy , and one of dubious morals at that , to godhead was seized upon as exemplifying the profane bankruptcy ...
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46 Such comparisons stung the already hypersensitive susceptibilities of the Christians to the quick . In the later second century the Church ... Thus almost all of the Christian writers down to the final conquest of their faith ( c .
46 Such comparisons stung the already hypersensitive susceptibilities of the Christians to the quick . In the later second century the Church ... Thus almost all of the Christian writers down to the final conquest of their faith ( c .
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65 marked a decisive victory for the Christian party . ... As if designed flagrantly to affront the Christians , he is deliberately associated with some of the principal pagan immortals in history : Achilles , Hermes and Dionysos .
65 marked a decisive victory for the Christian party . ... As if designed flagrantly to affront the Christians , he is deliberately associated with some of the principal pagan immortals in history : Achilles , Hermes and Dionysos .
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Scandal of the centuries | 1 |
Antinous the young Greek c 11023 | 15 |
Hadrian the Roman Emperor 76123 | 33 |
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