Fig. 3: Statue of AntinousVatican Museums
Posted on 02/14/2025 7:51:46 AM PST by SunkenCiv
...In 123 CE the Roman Emperor Hadrian was traveling through Bithynia, and was introduced to Antinous... During their time together, Antinous became a favorite of the Emperor, and Hadrian may have provided him with a formal education. At some point, Antinous became Hadrian's lover and accompanied the Emperor on his many travels.
While traveling with Hadrian in Egypt in 130 CE, Antinous died before his twentieth birthday under mysterious circumstances. We know he drowned in the Nile, but was it an accident, a suicide, or murder, either by Hadrian or someone close to Hadrian? Or was it perhaps a human sacrifice offered to the Nile? All that is known is that Hadrian was reported to be bereft after his death. So why should people interested in ancient Egypt care about Antinous? After all, he was born and lived most of his life outside Egypt. It is because of the ways in which Antinous was memorialized by Hadrian.
After his death, Hadrian had Antinous deified. While numerous Roman Emperors were deified (Julius Caesar, Augustus, Vespasian, to name just a few), it was highly unusual for a commoner to be deified in Rome (The Fitzwilliam Museum)...
Vout (2005) suggests that more statues were created of Antinous than any other figure from ancient Rome, with the possible exceptions of Augustus and Hadrian. Some of the statues have been found with Antinous in deified form such as this full-figure statue, containing both Egyptian and Roman features (fig. 3). In this format, Antinous is typically shown wearing the nemes headcloth, which is normally associated with pharaohs (fig. 4). Ken noted that Antinous was frequently associated with Osiris, taking the form of Osiris-Antinous.
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Fig. 3: Statue of AntinousVatican Museums
Wouldn't be a bad statue (replica of course) to have overlooking the spot where Tafari Campbell drowned. No reason.
Did Antinous happen to be paddle-boarding at the time of the drowning?
How old was Antinous when he was “introduced” to Hadrian?
It appears Antinous was about 13.
Antinous was almost certainly a slave at the time.
Probably murdered by drowning by a jealous rival...................
He gots a real purty mouth.
Paddle board faster, I hear sistrum music!
Well that’s queer?
One of the reasons postulated for Chrisianity becoming the state religion in Rome is that pagan Romans did not reproduce enough to maintain their population, in part because homosexuality was rampant, as was abortion and infantacide.
Christians and Jews cherished children. Christians rescued many children exposed to die by Romans. Christians and, to some extent, Jews were better at reproducing than Romans were, especially in Roman cities.
Wealthy Romans weren't necessarily inclined to have big families, and weren't typically love matches (arranged marriages, family alliances, upward mobility). Hadrian was one of the Adoptive Emperors, his mother didn't much like Trajan, and Hadrian and his wife didn't get along. He spent much of his reign touring the Empire. He regarded circumcision as mutiliation of the body, and disliked Jews a little more because of that.
Probably drunk. If he’d been chomped by a hippo or a crocodile, the Romans would have recognized his cause of death.
I’d say, no question of it. Posh Romans didn’t have employees in the modern sense.
What is CE?
Just stop.
[cue the banjos]
CE is like AD.
BCE is like BC.
CE = Christian Era
BCE = Before Christian Era
CE is what Jewish people and atheists prefer to use so that they don’t have to use “Anno Domini”.
Antinoöpolis, Roman city in ancient Egypt, on the east bank of the Nile, 24 miles (38 km) south of modern al-Minyā in al-Minyā muḥāfaẓah (governorate) and 177 miles (285 km) south of Cairo. The earliest levels excavated date to the New Kingdom (1567–1085 bc). On the site of a Ramesside temple, the Roman emperor Hadrian officially founded the city on October 30, ad 130, naming it after his companion Antinoüs, who had drowned in the Nile near the site earlier that year. The Via Hadriana, which led to the Red Sea, began at Antinoöpolis. Papyri found there have provided information about its constitution, which was based on that of Naukratis. The citizens were considered Greeks, although they could marry Egyptian women. Under Diocletian (ad 286) it became capital of the Thebaid nome. Under Valens (reigned ad 364–378) it became the seat of two bishops, one Orthodox, the other Monophysite. The city survived at least to the 8th century ad. A theater, many temples, a triumphal arch, a circus, and a hippodrome were still visible in the early 19th century, but there is now little to see.Antinoöpolis | The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica | most recently revised and updated by Mindy Johnston
The Via Hadriana was an ancient Roman road established by the emperor Hadrian, which stretched from Antinoöpolis on the River Nile to the Red Sea at Berenice Troglodytica (Berenike). Hadrian had founded Antinoöpolis in memory of his presumed lover, the youth Antinous, who had drowned in the Nile. The Via Hadriana was finished in 137 AD. Traces of the road line were noted by Couyat (1910) and Murray (1925) who recorded the sites of several small mansiones in the southern part of the road. However, few were in the north and none at all were on the west-east stretch between Antinoöpolis and the coast. Many of these road stations had fortified watering points (hydreumata), which are likely to have given their name to the Hadhramaut on the other side of the Red Sea.About: Via Hadriana | dbpedia.org
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