The Face in Every City: Hadrian and Antinous (130 CE) | LGBTQ+ History Sleep Story
Drift off to sleep learning about Hadrian and Antinous, the Roman emperor who lost the young man he loved in the Nile in October of 130 CE, and answered his grief by founding a city, declaring him a god, and putting his face in every province of the empire.
Antinous was born around 110 CE at Bithynion-Claudiopolis in the province of Bithynia, in what is now northwestern Turkey, and joined Hadrian's court in the mid-120s. In October 130, while the imperial flotilla was travelling up the Nile near Hermopolis during the festival of Osiris, he drowned; Hadrian recorded it as an accident, while…
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