Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinous |
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Though St Jerome compares him to a public male concubine , he also declares him a boy of uncommonly outstanding beauty ' . One minute the violent Tertullian denounces him as a ' bugger ' , the next he almost pityingly depicts this new ...
Though St Jerome compares him to a public male concubine , he also declares him a boy of uncommonly outstanding beauty ' . One minute the violent Tertullian denounces him as a ' bugger ' , the next he almost pityingly depicts this new ...
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Ancient Greece had seen in the beauty of innocent youth a spiritual element , blooming , fading and always mysteriously renewed and therefore deserving of veneration . In sculpture , poetry and literature this divine adolescent ( often ...
Ancient Greece had seen in the beauty of innocent youth a spiritual element , blooming , fading and always mysteriously renewed and therefore deserving of veneration . In sculpture , poetry and literature this divine adolescent ( often ...
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The physical features of Antinous stamp the type throughout and created a new style of masculine beauty . The high , domed head covered with luxuriant curls which spill down the neck and cluster low over the brow , the broad , squarish ...
The physical features of Antinous stamp the type throughout and created a new style of masculine beauty . The high , domed head covered with luxuriant curls which spill down the neck and cluster low over the brow , the broad , squarish ...
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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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