Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinous |
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As his writing proceeded , this rogue scholiast warmed to his agreeable task , his imagination caught fire as his supply of solid information ran out and he invented progressively more false names , unsubstantiated facts , fictitious ...
As his writing proceeded , this rogue scholiast warmed to his agreeable task , his imagination caught fire as his supply of solid information ran out and he invented progressively more false names , unsubstantiated facts , fictitious ...
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His brief account of Hadrian does contain some details and facts not given anywhere else and is more forthright than ... Our knowledge of Antinous ' divine existence looms like a mountain of fact over the grains of doubt left to us from ...
His brief account of Hadrian does contain some details and facts not given anywhere else and is more forthright than ... Our knowledge of Antinous ' divine existence looms like a mountain of fact over the grains of doubt left to us from ...
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Hadrian had always tried to follow his admired Herakles : now he had in fact emulated his hero's conquest of the Nemean lion . His hunts had always been partly designed to stress his affinity with the gods and his civilising mission ...
Hadrian had always tried to follow his admired Herakles : now he had in fact emulated his hero's conquest of the Nemean lion . His hunts had always been partly designed to stress his affinity with the gods and his civilising mission ...
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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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