Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Antinoüs

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Antinoüs

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Son of Eupithes of Ithaca, and one of the suitors of Penelopé, was slain by Odysseus.

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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.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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