[Colorado Cowgirl]

No wonder he like Greece so well. Hadrian’s homosexual relationship with the Greek youth Antinous is well known through history and remains one of the defining parts of his reign. It is said that, while the two were on a tour of Egypt, Antinous fell off of a barge in the Nile and died. The loss of his young lover made Hadrian go insane and he immediately deified the youth and had cults developed to worship him. Hadrian also named some cities throughout the empire after him.

[wildbill]

I guess you could say he went overboard in his grief?

[eleni121]

No wonder he like Greece so well

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He would have liked living this lifestyle just about everywhere.... same sex relations were still common and accepted in this era everywhere...just a few years later though those kind of sexual relations were no longer tolerated in the increasingly Christian dominated world