Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinous |
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They welcomed the new partnership as one by which Rome provided the political institutions , external defence and internal peace under which the superior culture of Hellas could flower untroubled . Plutarch , whose career as a priest of ...
They welcomed the new partnership as one by which Rome provided the political institutions , external defence and internal peace under which the superior culture of Hellas could flower untroubled . Plutarch , whose career as a priest of ...
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His ecstatic journeys in the east undoubtedly gave the preservation and renewal of Hellenic culture greater prominence in his mind and , while always stressing the common links between east and west , himself chief among them ...
His ecstatic journeys in the east undoubtedly gave the preservation and renewal of Hellenic culture greater prominence in his mind and , while always stressing the common links between east and west , himself chief among them ...
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For though the new foundation was to be ostensibly Greek , Hadrian intended to incorporate some of the strengths of the Egyptian culture he had lately come to admire . The city , as we have seen , was not to be just a personal memorial ...
For though the new foundation was to be ostensibly Greek , Hadrian intended to incorporate some of the strengths of the Egyptian culture he had lately come to admire . The city , as we have seen , was not to be just a personal memorial ...
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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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