Antinoüs

Antinoüs in Wikipedia

Antinoüs or Antinoös (Greek: Ἀντίνοος) (November 27,[1] c.111– October before 30th, 130) was a member of the entourage of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, to whom he was beloved. Antinous was deified after his death.[2] Antinous was born to a Greek family in Bithynion-Claudiopolis, in the Roman province of Bithynia in what is now north-west Turkey. O...

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Antinoüs in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*)Anti/nous), a son of Eupeithes of Ithaca, and one of the suitors of Penelope, who during the absence of Odysseus even attempted to make himself master of the kingdom and threatened the life of Telemachus. (Hom. Od. 22.48, &c., 4.630, &c., 16.371.) When Odysseus after his return appeared in the disguise of a beggar, Antinous insulted hi...

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