Antinoos (ca. 110-130)
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- Name (English)
- Antinous
- Short name
- Antinoüs
- Year of birth
- 110
- Year of death
- 130
- Short Description
- "Antinous (also Antinoüs, Latin: Antinous) or Antinoös (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίνοος, romanized: Antínoös; 27 November, c. 111 – before 30 October 130[a]) was a Bithynian Greek youth and a favourite beloved of the Roman emperor Hadrian. After his premature death before his twentieth birthday, Antinous was deified on Hadrian's orders, being worshipped in both the Greek East and Latin West, sometimes as a god (theos) and sometimes merely as a hero (ἥρως, hḗrōs).
Little is known of Antinous's life, although it is known that he was born in Claudiopolis (present day Bolu, Turkey), in the Roman province of Bithynia et Pontus. He was probably introduced to Hadrian in 123, before being taken to Italy for a higher education. He had become the favourite of Hadrian by 128, when he was taken on a tour of the Roman Empire as part of Hadrian's personal retinue. Antinous accompanied Hadrian during his attendance of the annual Eleusinian Mysteries in Athens, and was with him when he killed the Marousian lion in Libya. In October 130, as they were part of a flotilla going along the Nile, Antinous died amid mysterious circumstances. Various suggestions have been put forward for how he died, ranging from an accidental drowning to an intentional human sacrifice or suicide." - (en.wikipedia.org 10.08.2021) - Entity Encoding
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Antinous als Osiris
Die Zeichnung von Giovanni...
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Image: Winckelmann-Museum Stendal - CC BY-NC-SA -
Antinous Albani
Die Zeichnung von Giuseppe...
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Image: Winckelmann-Museum Stendal - CC BY-NC-SA -
Statue des Antinoos
Abguss der 1894 in einem...
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Image: Winckelmann-Museum Stendal - CC BY-NC-SA -
Intaglio mit Hadrian und Antinoos, 1. H. 18. Jh.
Der farblose Achat ist in...
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Image: Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart - CC BY-SA -
Büste des Antinoos
Die Alabasterbüste zeigt den...
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Image: Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart - CC BY-SA
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