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Visual depiction of Antinous

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Vol. V · Deified Humans

Antinous

the beautiful youth of Emperor Hadrian who drowned in the Nile and was deified


his serene handsome face reproduced in temples and oracles across the entire Roman world

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This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how this culture has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.