fenrises:history meme | [3/7] relationships: hadrian & antinousIn Egypt also [Hadrian] rebuilt t

fenrises:history meme | [3/7] relationships: hadrian & antinousIn Egypt also [Hadrian] rebuilt the city named henceforth for Antinous. Antinous was from Bithynium, a city of Bithynia, which we also call Claudiopolis; he had been a favourite of the emperor and had died in Egypt, either by falling into the Nile, as Hadrian writes, or, as the truth is, by being offered in sacrifice. Accordingly, he honoured Antinous, either because of his love for him or because the youth had voluntarily undertaken to die, by building a city on the spot where he had suffered this fate and naming it after him; and he also set up statues, or rather sacred images, of him, practically all over the world. Finally, he declared that he had seen a star which he took to be that of Antinous, and gladly lent an ear to the fictitious tales woven by his associates to the effect that the star had really come into being from the spirit of Antinous and had then appeared for the first time. [x] -- source link

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