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Meaning of antinoo by Felipe Lorenzo del Río





Felipe Lorenzo del Río

antinoo
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Also Antinous and Antino, name own Latinized Greek Antinous. Young woman of great beauty, favorite and lover of the emperor Hadrian, born in Bithynia in the Northwest of Asia minor in the vicinity of the Bosphorus maybe something after 110. He drowned in the River Nile in 130 perhaps by accident or maybe not. His figure has been exalted above all in sculptural art and literature by different authors such as Oscar Wilde and Fernando Pessoa.

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