🪷📚 6 Sept is #ReadABookDay #BookTip: #TheLoveGod by #MartinCampbell. Well-researched #HistoricalNovel about #Antinous. Order here: www.amazon.com/The-Love-God... @martinglasto.bsky.social 🪷

🪷📚 6 Sept is #ReadABookDay: You loved "The Love God," #MartinCampbell 's historical novel about the life of #Antinous. Now you must read his novel about the early life of #JuliusCaesar entitled "Queen Julius Caesar." Order here: www.amazon.co.uk/Queen-Julius... @martinglasto.bsky.social 📚🪷

🪷📚 6 Sept is #ReadABookDay: #Antinous Book Tip: "Beloved and God" by #RoystonLambert, authoritative biography yet lively reading: www.amazon.com/Beloved-God-... 📚🪷

🪷📚 6 Sept is #ReadABookDay #Antinous Book Tip: "Memoirs of Hadrian" (Mémoires d'Hadrien) by Marguerite #Yourcenar is the finest Historical Novel ever written. 📚🪷

🪷 #80thBirthday ... He would have been 80 years old today ... #FreddieMercury, born 5 September 1946, died 24 November 1991. He is a saint of #Antinous for reminding us all that "we are the champions." Full tribute here: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/fred... 🪷

🪷 Happy World Beard Day ... Día Mundial de la Barba ... Dia Barba do Mundo. First Saturday in September. This Beard Day image comes to us courtesy novelist @ljtrafford.bsky.social, who suggests #Antinous probably didn't want a beard at first ... but then it grew on him. #WorldBeardDay #BeardDay 🪷

🪷 #WorldBeardDay The first Saturday of September is World Beard Day ... Día Mundial de la Barba ... Dia Barba do Mundo ... No ancient portrait of #Antinous shows him with facial hair. But thanks to apps, we can imagine how he might have looked with a beard. Happy #BeardDay. 🪷

🪷 #WorldBeardDay A beard makes the #Eleusis #Antinous statue look more solemn than ever. The first Saturday of September is World Beard Day ... Día Mundial de la Barba ... Dia Barba do Mundo ... Happy #BeardDay. 🪷

🪷 #WorldBeardDay: Hand-picked by #Hadrian as successor, #AntoninusPius lavished vast sums on #Antinous art and temples. When bearded #Hadrian became emperor of Rome, every style-conscious man in Rome had a beard. The first Saturday of September is World Beard Day #BeardDay 🪷