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Indeed the illegitimate son theory has had a venerable and varied run as a proposition which neatly avoids confronting Hadrian's possible homosexuality in his fondness for his two favourites , Antinous and Lucius Ceionius Commodus .
Indeed the illegitimate son theory has had a venerable and varied run as a proposition which neatly avoids confronting Hadrian's possible homosexuality in his fondness for his two favourites , Antinous and Lucius Ceionius Commodus .
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Hadrian's ostentatious affairs with Antinous and Commodus were scarcely the unembarrassing and discreet liaisons with dancers which were all that Plotina had to endure from Trajan . It must have been difficult to bear the cruel irony of ...
Hadrian's ostentatious affairs with Antinous and Commodus were scarcely the unembarrassing and discreet liaisons with dancers which were all that Plotina had to endure from Trajan . It must have been difficult to bear the cruel irony of ...
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explained by a personal preference , an emotional bond so overriding that it swept away all the inadequacies and dangers embodied in Commodus . Such a deep , heedless and unconcealed bond could , under the circumstances , have only two ...
explained by a personal preference , an emotional bond so overriding that it swept away all the inadequacies and dangers embodied in Commodus . Such a deep , heedless and unconcealed bond could , under the circumstances , have only two ...
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Hadrian the Roman Emperor 76123 | 33 |
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