Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinous |
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The cities , in their new - found prosperity and ancient megalomaniac rivalry , had expended vast sums on public works which , through incompetence or peculation , had often come to nothing . Pliny found that Nikomedia alone had spent ...
The cities , in their new - found prosperity and ancient megalomaniac rivalry , had expended vast sums on public works which , through incompetence or peculation , had often come to nothing . Pliny found that Nikomedia alone had spent ...
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He thereby reconstructs a ripe scandal which eluded the vigilant noses and the fecund imaginations of all the ancient commentators and has taken eighteen hundred years to come to light . At no time does Carcopino , or the various other ...
He thereby reconstructs a ripe scandal which eluded the vigilant noses and the fecund imaginations of all the ancient commentators and has taken eighteen hundred years to come to light . At no time does Carcopino , or the various other ...
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It had taken an Emperor of Rome to realise , in however limited a form , the ancient Greek dream of unity at the very end of the pagan epoch , before the rise of another more potent form of unity in the shape of the Christian Empire of ...
It had taken an Emperor of Rome to realise , in however limited a form , the ancient Greek dream of unity at the very end of the pagan epoch , before the rise of another more potent form of unity in the shape of the Christian Empire of ...
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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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