Almost 125 years before the birth of Jesus a handsome youth named Antinous was declared a god by the Roman emperor Publius Aelius Hadrian. Antinous was born to a Greek family in Bithynion-Claudiopolis ...

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 ...

Antinous was a boy-favourite of the Emperor Hadrian. He drowned in the Nile in A.D. 130, and the emperor founded a city in middle Egypt in his honour called Antinoopolis or ‘Antinous City’. A striking ...

This column first appeared in BTL Oct. 2012. Almost 125 years before the birth of Jesus a handsome youth named Antinous was declared a god by the Roman emperor Publius Aelius Hadrian. Hadrian fell in ...

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 ...

The story of Ancient Roman Emperor Hardrian and his lover Antinous has long been the stuff of literal legend, captivating the queer imagination from Michelangelo to Oscar Wilde. But what was the ...