Antinoüs
1.
Son of Eupithes of Ithaca, and one of the suitors of Penelopé, was slain by
Odysseus.
2.
A youth of extraordinary beauty, born at Claudiopolis in Bithynia, was the favourite of the
emperor Hadrian, and his companion in all his journeys (Pausan. viii. 9, 7). He was drowned
in the Nile, A.D. 122. The grief of the emperor knew no bounds. He enrolled Antinoüs
among the gods, caused a temple to be erected to him at Mantinea, and founded the city
of Antinoöpolis in honour of him. Beautiful statues and busts of him still exist.