It was the book Hadrian’s Memoirs, by Marguerite Yourcenar that would eventually, many years later, bring me to Rome. Yourcenar, after an exhaustive 30-year research, wrote a fictional memoir in the ...

In 130 CE, a handsome Greek youth drowned in the Nile. Born about 110 CE in Bithynia, in modern Turkey, Antinous’s early years are mostly a mystery. As a teenager, he met the Roman emperor Hadrian ...

Those who enjoy the history of the Roman Empire are well acquainted with the story of Antinous, the young man of extraordinary beauty who deeply captivated Emperor Hadrian. Not only did Hadrian love ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hadrian's Wall stretches 73 miles across Northumberland, Cumbria and Tyne and Wear - Marc Guitard/Moment Hadrian's Wall is a ...

1 LIGHTS OUT AT THE WOMEN'S HOTEL to Make World Premiere at Chain Theatre Festival Columbia University School of the Arts presents Mark Barford's (Columbia MFA Directing Candidate 2019) production of ...

Variety announced today that New Queer Cinema trailblazer Gus Van Sant (My Own Private Idaho, Milk) will be supporting the upcoming “psychosexual thriller” Antinous, named after ancient Roman emperor ...

Almost 125 years before the birth of Jesus a handsome youth named Antinous was declared a god by the Roman emperor Publius Aelius Hadrian. Antinous was born to a Greek family in Bithynion-Claudiopolis ...