Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinous |
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Then comes the hunt of the wild boar and the offering of its spoil to Artemis or Diana . There follows a unique scene of ... The series ends with a final sacrifice to Apollo for the safety he has offered to those surviving such perils .
Then comes the hunt of the wild boar and the offering of its spoil to Artemis or Diana . There follows a unique scene of ... The series ends with a final sacrifice to Apollo for the safety he has offered to those surviving such perils .
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Antinous died either by falling into the Nile , as Hadrian writes , or , as the truth is , by being offered in sacrifice . For Hadrian ... was always very curious and employed divinations and incantations of all kinds .
Antinous died either by falling into the Nile , as Hadrian writes , or , as the truth is , by being offered in sacrifice . For Hadrian ... was always very curious and employed divinations and incantations of all kinds .
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Now , however , it is expressly suggested by magicians as a vicarious offering designed to prolong Hadrian's own obscurely threatened life and rendered all the more heroic by everybody else's refusal to volunteer for it .
Now , however , it is expressly suggested by magicians as a vicarious offering designed to prolong Hadrian's own obscurely threatened life and rendered all the more heroic by everybody else's refusal to volunteer for it .
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| Titill | Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinous Wilensky-Ritzenhein Gay Book Collection |
| Höfundur | Royston Lambert |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Útgefandi | Viking, 1984 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 25 okt. 2011 |
| ISBN | 0670157082, 9780670157082 |
| Length | 298 síður |
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