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Antinous ( born about 110 AD ), the favourite of Roman Emperor Hadrian ( born 76 AD - died 138AD ), is said to have drowned in the river Nile in 130. He was subsequently deified by the Emperor. There was even a city founded and named Antinoopolis in his honour close to the site of his death.
Many statues, pictures and coins depicting him as an icon of youthful beauty still survive. Some of these mimicked the form of the Egyptian god Osiris, who also drowned in the Nile.
Antinous was about 20 years of age when he died. He was born around 110AD in the Greek province of Bythnia which today lies in western Turkey and seems to have joined the Imperial Court around 123AD when Hadrian was on a tour of the provinces and he was about 13. When exactly the two first met or Hadrian fell in love with Antinous is not known but the relationship was probably well established by the time Antinous reached 18.
The exact circumstances surrounding Antinous's death in 130 are uncertain but from the scant records it is assumed that he died from drowning in the Nile. The possibility of murder or suicide has not been ruled out.
Two hundred years later St Anthanasius wrote
"This shameless and scandalous boy died in Egypt when the court was there: and forthwith his Imperial Majesty issued out an order strictly requiring and commanding his loving subjects to acknowledge his departed page a deity and to pay him his quota of divine reverences and honours as such: a resolution and act which did more effectually publish and testify to the world how entirely the Emperor's unnatural passion survived the foul object of it; and how much his master was devoted to memory, that he recorded his own crime and condemnation, immortalized his infamy and shame, and bequeathed to mankind a lasting and notorious specimen of the true origin and extraction of all idolatry."
The emperor continued to mourn Antinous until his own death in 138AD.
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