Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinous |
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Perhaps the poor club - members of Lanuvium , a place full of senatorial and imperial villas , had taken advice and were better informed than later historians thought . Evidently , the date was widely known anyway .
Perhaps the poor club - members of Lanuvium , a place full of senatorial and imperial villas , had taken advice and were better informed than later historians thought . Evidently , the date was widely known anyway .
Síða 48
... we are naturally much better informed from his own writings and speeches , from more objective material of all kinds , from the comments of his contemporaries and successors , and the much fuller accounts of the ancient historians .
... we are naturally much better informed from his own writings and speeches , from more objective material of all kinds , from the comments of his contemporaries and successors , and the much fuller accounts of the ancient historians .
Síða 56
It also provides a whole series of clues about his emotional nature and sexual tastes , in phrases which historians either ignore or dismiss as scandal but which are remarkably consistent in themselves , and tally with his undoubted ...
It also provides a whole series of clues about his emotional nature and sexual tastes , in phrases which historians either ignore or dismiss as scandal but which are remarkably consistent in themselves , and tally with his undoubted ...
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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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