In 130 CE, a handsome Greek youth drowned in the Nile. Born about 110 CE in Bithynia, in modern Turkey, Antinous’s early years are mostly a mystery. As a teenager, he met the Roman emperor Hadrian ...
It was the book Hadrian’s Memoirs, by Marguerite Yourcenar that would eventually, many years later, bring me to Rome. Yourcenar, after an exhaustive 30-year research, wrote a fictional memoir in the ...
Those who enjoy the history of the Roman Empire are well acquainted with the story of Antinous, the young man of extraordinary beauty who deeply captivated Emperor Hadrian. Not only did Hadrian love ...
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