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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 130 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTINOUS , a beautiful youth of Claudiopolis in See also:

Bithynia, was the favourite of the See also:emperor See also:Hadrian, whom he accompanied on his journeys. He committed See also:suicide by drowning himself in the See also:Nile (A.D. 130), either in a See also:fit of See also:melancholy or in See also:order to prolong his See also:patron's See also:life by his voluntary See also:sacrifice. After his See also:death, Hadrian caused the most extravagant respect to be paid to his memory. Not only were cities called after him, medals struck with his effigy, and statues erected to him in all parts of the See also:empire, but he was raised to the See also:rank of the gods, temples were built for his See also:worship in Bithynia, See also:Mantineia in See also:Arcadia, and See also:Athens, festivals celebrated in his See also:honour and oracles delivered in his name. The See also:city of Antinoopolis was founded on the ruins of Besa where he died (Dio See also:Cassius lix. 11; Spartianus, Hadrian). A number of statues, busts, gems and coins represented Antinoos as the ideal type of youthful beauty, often with the attributes of some See also:special See also:god. We still possess a See also:colossal bust in the Vatican, a bust in the Louvre, a bas-See also:relief from the See also:Villa See also:Albania a statue in the Capitoline museum, another in See also:Berlin, another in the Lateran, and many more. See Levezow, Uher den Antinous (18o8); See also:Dietrich, Antinoos (1884) ; Laban, Der Gemutsausdruck See also:des Antinoos (1891) ;,Antinoos, A See also:Romance of See also:Ancient See also:Rome, from the See also:German of A. See also:Hausrath, by M. Safford (New See also:York, 1882); See also:Ebers, Der Kaiser (1881).

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