The death of Antinous

[Nearly Sane]

Apparently on this day in 130AD, on his way to godhood


http://britishmuseum.tumblr.com/post/147099565137/hadrian-antinous-and-egypt

[Brownie]

A beautiful love story, the stuff of Tragedies.  I'd love to see that exhibition.

Serapis was a type of universalist!  What forward thinking but one shouldn't be surprised considering how civilised Romans Greeks and Egyptians were.  I'd have probably been - Serapist? - had I lived there and then.

[Nearly Sane]

A beautiful love story, the stuff of Tragedies.  I'd love to see that exhibition.

Serapis was a type of universalist!  What forward thinking but one shouldn't be surprised considering how civilised Romans Greeks and Egyptians were.  I'd have probably been - Serapist? - had I lived there and then.

I think there is a difficulty in ascribing either the idea of civilisation or lack of it to the these times. The very idea of civilisation is a hard one to pin down, and one that we change over time.

Hadrian is an extraordinary character, however we are focussed generally on the Julio-Claudians