@antinousgaygod.bsky.social🪷 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. 🪷
@antinousgaygod.bsky.social🪷 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... 🪷
@antinousgaygod.bsky.social🪷 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. 🪷
@michael-fuchs83.bsky.socialIn 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.
@camhawkins.bsky.socialThe 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...
@havetoga.bsky.socialThe 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...
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@antinousgaygod.bsky.social🪷 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... 🪷
@antinousgaygod.bsky.social🪷 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. 🪷
@michael-fuchs83.bsky.socialAt 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.
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@antinousgaygod.bsky.social🪷 #Hadrian and #Antinous vases by Australian-British artist, writer and curator Andrew Nicholls in collaboration with Huang Fei. Visit the website: www.andrewnicholls.com.au 🪷
@plinys23.bsky.socialDid you know that emperor #Hadrian had a #gay lover? He was so smitten with Antinous that when he passed away, Hadrian even deified him.
Some more info here:
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@planet-gay-comic.bsky.social👑 Hadrian & Antinous – Love and Apotheosis in the Roman Empire 🌿
📺🎶 Watch the 14:02 HD film: www.deviantart.com/planet-gay-c...
🏛️ Hadrian & Antinous – Love and Deification in the Age of the Pax Romana
In the 2nd century AD, at the Pax Romana
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The stereotype of #Scotland is that no #Romans were there, & the Roman empire ended at #Hadrian'sWall which is in #England.
#AntonineWall
@antinousgaygod.bsky.social🪷 #WorldBeardDay After #Hadrian made beards fashionable, his chosen heirs all had beards: #LuciusAelius, #AntoninusPius, #LuciusVerus, #MarcusAurelius and #Commodus. The first Saturday of September is World Beard Day. #BeardDay 🪷
@antinousgaygod.bsky.social🪷 #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 🪷