Why is antinous called the gay god

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Antinous The Doomed Lover

{INSERTKEYS} [1][2][3] Following his premature death before his 20th birthday, Antinous was deified on Hadrian's orders, being worshipped in both the Greek East and Latin West, sometimes as a god (θεός. Antinous was an icon- literally images of him as an apotheised god acted as a item of veneration, and he has become a gay icon.

How Antinous Met Hadrian Antinous was born in the city of Claudiopolis in Bithynia, located in modern-day Turkey, probably around C.E. In the Renaissance, gay men rediscovered Antinous’s beauty and tragic story. The small exhibition at the Ashmolean in Oxford presents depictions of the young man from the ancient and modern world.

The Townley Antinous shows the god with a wreath of ivy leaves and berry clusters. Antinous is the God of all Gay people, he was a homosexual, and it is therefore our calling as gay men to restore his name and the place of his religion to the reverence of his ancient past.

A Hero is not quite a god, although worthy of veneration. ) [a] was a Greek youth from Bithynia, a favourite and lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian. The colossal Antinous from Praeneste show him with a similar wreath on his head, but also a pinecone.

Hadrian erected temples to him throughout the empire and founded a city, named Antinoöpolis, in his honour, near the place where he died. Hadrian deified Antinous because he loved him, because he wanted to give Antinous everything that he had within his power to bestow upon Antinous.

Statues were set up across the Empire and the town where he passed was renamed Antinoopolis. Drowned in the Nile. Antinous was also identified with Dionysos. Antinous, also called Antinoös, (/ ænˈtɪnoʊʌs /; Ancient Greek: Ἀντίνοος; c.

The grieving emperor not only built a whole city in his honor, as well as numerous statues, but he also transformed Antinous into a god. These later types of Osiris statue have been called Osiris Canopus. A statue of him with an Egyptian headdress has been interpreted as Antinous Osiris.

A fine exhibition that explores big themes of politics, religion, sexuality, culture, art history and reception in a small setting. – c. Antinoüs was the homosexual lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian, deified by the emperor after his death in Egypt, where he drowned.

This image of the emperor has retained a certain popularity, even though the emperor was quite a high handed rule as his treatment to his Jewish subjects shows. His ascent continued in the eighteenth century when craftsmen continued to depict Antinous.

Objects have been found across the Roman world, most notably in Rome, Greece and Bithynia. Osiris was portrayed in Egyptian headdress but also as a mummy a mummoid and as a vase symbolising the holy waters of Nile. As a god he was associated with various gods, possibly even with Osiris.

A gorgeous carnelian gem was cut by Edward Burch. An obelisk, now in Rome near. Antinous Osiris? These consists of coins, gems and statues and busts. Close Menu Magazine. Such identifications are far to simplistic. An intriguing bust of Antinous is dedicated to the Hero Antinous.

Most notably Yourcenar depicted a heartbroken Hadrian in her novel Memoirs of Hadrian. Antinous, the Bithynian youth whom Hadrian loved, died in Egypt. The god gave legitimacy to their desires while the legal system forbade them to act on their feelings.

But what is known is that Hadrian mourned Antinous’ death immensely.{/INSERTKEYS}