🪷 #Mars is now in #Leo the Lion until 25 Nov, energizing you to do the impossible. #Antinous Lion art by #AndrewPrior. We are inspired by the spiritual mysteries of the Lion Hunt of #Hadrian and #Antinoos in Egypt in 130 AD when they slew a lion. More: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/09/astr... 🪷

🪷 #AugustusCaesar born 23 Sept 63 BC, died 19 Aug 14 AD. He's the centerpiece at Berlin's #AltesMuseum. #Antinous & #Hadrian are side-by-side (far right). Augustus points to the Antonine Dynasty (left). Where would any of them have been had it not been for Caesar Augustus? 🪷

🪷 At the #Equinox we recall the night in autumn 129 AD when lightning hit a mountaintop altar on Mt. #Casius in Syria, killing a priest and sacrificial animal, narrowly missing #Antinous and #Hadrian. Was it an omen? #Antinoos died a year later. Read: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/09/anti... 🪷

🪷 #Hadrian designed the #Pantheon to cast sunlight on him (and Antinous!) at the #Solstice & #Equinox. The September Equinox is 00:05 UTC 23 Sept. Autumn Equinox in Northern Hemisphere. Spring Equinox in Southern Hemisphere. Wherever you live, #Antinous loves and blesses you! 🪷

🪷 20 Sept is the feast day of St. Eustace, Christian saint linked to #Hadrian. Hunting at Tivoli in Hadrian's reign, he saw a crucifix in a stag's antlers. Patron of hunters, firefighters. His deer is on Jägermeister bottle labels. Read the full story: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-... 🪷

🪷 Antinous would be forgotten save for him: Emperor #AntoninusPius was born 19 Sept 86 AD. He piously, diligently and faithfully carried out predecessor #Hadrian's wishes to enable religion of #Antinous to grow and flourish throughout the Roman Empire: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-... 🪷

In 138 CE, Hadrian finally settles the matter: he adopts Antoninus Pius, a senator who's been around and has no appetite for military campaigns. Rome isn't looking for another fighter; it's looking for calm. #History #RomanEmpire #Hadrian

🪷 Emperor Trajan (born 18 Sept 53 AD - died 8 Aug 117 AD) became emperor on 28 Jan 98 AD upon the death of #Nerva 27 Jan. Without #Trajan and his wife #Plotina, #Hadrian might not have become Emperor nor #Antinous a god, the last Classical deity. 🪷

🪷 Born 17 Sept 1856: French Egyptologist #AlbertGayet found fabulous caches of mummies at the city #Hadrian founded on the Nile where #Antinous died. #Antinoopolis / #Fayoum mummy shrouds & face plates influenced Parisian fashion: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/09/fren... 🪷

🪷 Only known painted portrait of #Antinous. Hovering over shoulder at left. Mummy portrait from #Antinoopolis shows 2 "brothers" - or lovers? Born 17 Sept 1856: French Egyptologist #AlbertGayet found caches of mummies at the city #Hadrian founded on Nile where #Antinous died. 🪷

🪷 17 Sept is #NationalPetBirdDay: In the Marguerite #Yourcenar novel "Hadrian's Memoirs" #Antinous has a beloved falcon on his fateful tour of Egypt with #Hadrian in 130 AD. The pet bird plays a key role in a witch's spell to prolong the Emperor's life: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/08/anti... 🪷

🪷 17 Sept is #NationalPetBirdDay A man and his BA soul spirit #bird from the #Antinoopolis / #Fayoum Oasis area. Roman-Egyptian tempera-on-linen mummy shroud from the heyday of the city founded by #Hadrian where #Antinous died in the Nile in Egypt in 130 AD. Getty Museum. 🪷

In early 138, the designated heir Lucius Aelius #Caesar died unexpectedly. #Hadrian, already severely ill at this point, responded by adopting #Antoninus and naming him successor. Hadrian seemed to have seen Antoninus as a mere placeholder.

The emperor #Hadrian didn’t just build a wall across Britain!

During a career that involved a “world tour” to pretty much every province of the Roman Empire, he rubbed elbows with provincial aristocrats...

#AncientBlueSky #Classics

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The emperor #Hadrian didn’t just build a wall across Britain!

During a career that involved a “world tour” to pretty much every province of the Roman Empire, he rubbed elbows with provincial aristocrats...

#AncientBlueSky #Classics

havetogawilltravel.com/podcast/have...

At #Hadrian's_Wall in Northern #England 10 years ago #travel

🪷 13 Sept 509 BC: The Temple of #Jupiter #Optimus #Maximus atop the #Capitoline Hill was dedicated on this date. Rome began its ascent! #Antinous was often identified with #Ganymede, swept aloft by #Hadrian as the imperial eagle. Full report here: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/09/rome... 🪷

🪷 This “Constellation of Antinous” (созвездие Антиной in Russian) badge is a USSR 1970s collectible. #Hadrian and #Antinous were likened to Zeus and #Ganymede. After Antinous died and was deified, the Constellation #Ganymedes next to #Aquila the Eagle was renamed for Antinous. 🪷

At some date between 110 and 115, #Antoninus married Annia Galeria Faustina (also known as Faustina the Elder to distinguish her from her daughter). A member of a #Roman upper-class family, she was one of #Rome's richest heiresses at the time and a niece of #Hadrian.