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The extraordinary #ancient #roman outdoor dining space known as the Canopus at the villa of #hadrian at #tivoli. #rome #ancientarchitecture #romanhistory #romanempire #villaadriana #ancientarchitecture

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🪷 "Amor Fortior Morte Est" (Love Is Mightier Than Death) Were and "gay" in the modern sense? Scholars quibbled until 2008 when curator declared: "Hadrian was gay, and we can say that now.": https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/04/antinous-is-god-of-gays-but-was-he-gay.html Art: 🪷

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🪷 There is a popular misconception that Antinous was underage when his relationship with started. But there is no historical evidence that their relationship began before he was a legal adult. All sculptural art, without exception, depicts as a mature male. Full text: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/01/antinous-gay-god.html 🪷

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A fountain of cipollino #marble carved as a crocodile, from the #ancient villa of the emperor #hadrian at tivoli. #rome #ancientrome #romanempire #archaeology #romanhistory

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🪷 🌹 At noon on Sunday rose petals cascade through oculus of 's in Rome. This centuries old tradition originated as the ancient Roman spring festival of roses. Watch it via our embedded video here: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/05/rose-petals-cascade-through-oculus-of.html 🪷

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Part of the #marble architectural ornament from the #ancient #roman mausoleum of the emperor #Hadrian, reused in a #medieval portico. #rome #ancienthistory #romanhistory #archaeology #architecturalhistory #romanempire

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🪷 23 April is UNESCO : Our BookTip: by is a well-researched, fast-paced novel of the life of . The best historical fiction book on and since 's . Order: https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/1500902543 🪷

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🪷 Visitors to 's Pantheon get a treat on 21 April (Rome's birthday) when a sunbeam illuminates the portal through which Hadrian and strode. The emperor designed the temple to serve as a solar calendar sundial. More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/04/hadrians-pantheon-becomes-sundial-for.html 🪷

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🪷 In the centre of the cuirassed chest of this marble bust of is, not a traditional "Gorgoneion," but the instantly recognisable face of ! Excavated 1995 in Kynouria, Peloponnese, now in the Astros Museum. Symbolically, Antinous shields his emperor, warding off all evil and misfortune! 🪷

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🪷 Bust of from , now at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, the city loved and which the Emperor and visited during their fateful tour of the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. 🪷

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🪷 loved so much that when Antinous died tragically in the Nile in October 130 AD, he declared Antinous a god and founded the city of there and erected temples and raised statues to him. The last Classical deity. The ultimate Classical deity! 🪷

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🪷 erected an to which still stands in Rome. Now there is one in Washington DC, erected 11 April 2017 in the Congressional Cemetery LGBTQ section. says, "This is magnificent." Full report: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/04/now-there-is-obelisk-of-antinous-on.html 🪷

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🪷 In spring 130 AD and visited Phoenician Tyre/Sidon, where encountered the worship of Baal and the Tyrian royal purple dye hue which would soon become his emblem and sacred color and which now symbolizes LGBTQIA spirituality. Full report: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/04/antinous-in-tyresidon.html 🪷

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#ancient #roman marble relief of #Antinous, lover and companion of the #emperor #Hadrian in the guise of the woodland god Silvanus. The name of the artist ‘Antonianos of Aphrodisias’ is inscribed on the altar. #rome #archaeology #ancientart #ancienthistory #ancientrome

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🪷 At the March #Equinox we remember that #Hadrian and #Antinous slew a wild boar in spring 129 AD. The hunt was immortalized in this Arch of Constantine Arch tondo showing #Antinoos looking over shoulder. Full report here: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-sacred-boar-hunt.html 🪷

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🪷 clearly vetted many of the Antinous statues. Lips, nose, jaw line and curls conformed to stringent standards. Those pouting lips, those copious curls: It can only be . Scholarly treatises have been written on the "Lock Scheme" of his hair! . Full details here: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/02/a-twist-or-curl-in-art-history-experts.html 🪷

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🪷 Happy birthday Emperor , born 24 Jan 76 AD, 1,948 years ago. Hadrian loved so much that he declared him a god. Modern priests joyously celebrate the birth of the founder of our religion! More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-birth-of-hadrian.html 🪷

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🪷 23 Jan is a major feast of , Egyptian goddess of home love, beauty, motherhood. In 2017, archaeologists found a temple cornice stone at which mentions Hathor and , along with , and Egypt's intersex deity . 🪷

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🪷 Did and see ? Now geologists have found proof that the prehistoric builders aligned Stonehenge to the axis. But they say it has to do with an Ice Age geological "fluke" of terrain. Full report: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/12/stonehenge-was-built-on-solstice-axis.html 🪷

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🪷 : Honey spiced wine (mulsum) and mead made life a little sweeter for Roman soldiers at ’s Wall. Pots found at Roman Fort and Corbridge Roman town showed traces of mulled wine. More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/12/mulled-spiced-wine-made-life-sweeter.html 🪷

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An #ancient #roman marble model of a stadium for athletics and racing from the villa of the #emperor #hadrian at #tivoli. #rome #villaadriana #archaeology #ancienthistory

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🪷 On 10 November 324 BC Hephaestion dies in the arms of Alexander the Great. upstages Alexander the Great by declaring a god whilst Alexander proclaims dead a hero in this cartoon. More cartoons by here: https://chotomy.tumblr.com/post/614971176559722496/ive-been-wanting-to-learn-about-alexander-the/amp 🪷

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Light show on the temple of in .

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🪷 may have seen this mosaic of a drunk Memento Mori skeleton, reclining on a cushion with wine and bread, admonishing mortals to "Be merry, enjoy life!" It adorns a villa in , which and visited in 129 AD: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/08/antinous-may-have-seen-this-mosaic-of.html 🪷

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🪷 30 Oct 130 AD grieving founded on the Nile where had died just days earlier. First priest and Epistrategos of was . The obelisk text says it was a mix of Egyptian and Greco-Roman styles. https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-founding-of-antinoopolis.html 🪷

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