Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinous |
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S Rather than confront what they regard as the morally repulsive sexual side of his nature , some biographers of Hadrian resort to special pleadings or elaborate evasions . Dietrichson not only sweeps aside the ancient testimonies as ...
S Rather than confront what they regard as the morally repulsive sexual side of his nature , some biographers of Hadrian resort to special pleadings or elaborate evasions . Dietrichson not only sweeps aside the ancient testimonies as ...
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There can be no doubt that , like the great lovers of five hundred years before , and in accordance with some mystical yearnings in his nature , Hadrian discerned elements of the divine in his beloved in his lifetime and this was no ...
There can be no doubt that , like the great lovers of five hundred years before , and in accordance with some mystical yearnings in his nature , Hadrian discerned elements of the divine in his beloved in his lifetime and this was no ...
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21 To this role was added that of a god of nature . His beauty as the divine ephebe was symbolic of the eternal pattern of waxing and waning of the earth . As a god , his powers of renewal and protection extended , like those of ...
21 To this role was added that of a god of nature . His beauty as the divine ephebe was symbolic of the eternal pattern of waxing and waning of the earth . As a god , his powers of renewal and protection extended , like those of ...
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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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