Antinous (Person, Concept)

Canonical URI: http://nomisma.org/id/antinous

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Antinous (en), Antinoüs (fr), Antínoo (es), Antinoo (it), Antinoos (de), Ἀντίνοος (el)Additional labels

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Antinous was a Greek youth from Bithynia and a favourite and lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian. Following his premature death before his 20th birthday, Antinous was deified on Hadrian's orders, being worshipped in both the Greek East and Latin West, sometimes as a god and sometimes merely as a hero.

Biographical Information

Birth
111 CE
Death
130 CE

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