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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Antinous the young Greek c 11023 | 15 |
Hadrian the Roman Emperor 76123 | 33 |
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