Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinous |
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His account of his investigative journey round the shores of the Black Sea , composed for his friend the Emperor Hadrian , suddenly launches into an encomium of the hero Achilles and his virtues , praising ' his untimely death in the ...
His account of his investigative journey round the shores of the Black Sea , composed for his friend the Emperor Hadrian , suddenly launches into an encomium of the hero Achilles and his virtues , praising ' his untimely death in the ...
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It is much easier to conceive the aggressive hero of Copenhagen , the stalwart athlete of the Bank of Italy or the lithe stripling of Aidepsos crouching , poised to meet the charging boar or pouncing lion than the delicate ephebe of ...
It is much easier to conceive the aggressive hero of Copenhagen , the stalwart athlete of the Bank of Italy or the lithe stripling of Aidepsos crouching , poised to meet the charging boar or pouncing lion than the delicate ephebe of ...
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When Antinous ' immortal status was defined , it was most often as that of a ' hero ' . Twenty - two of thirty cities called him that on their coins . One of the thirty - eight extant busts of him is overtly dedicated to the hero ...
When Antinous ' immortal status was defined , it was most often as that of a ' hero ' . Twenty - two of thirty cities called him that on their coins . One of the thirty - eight extant busts of him is overtly dedicated to the hero ...
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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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