What is Antinous?
{{Infobox person | name = Antinous | image = Bust of Antinous (2). 2nd cent. A.D (cropped).jpg | image_size = 235 | caption = Bust of Antinous from [[Patras]] ([[National Archaeological Museum, Athens]]) | birth_place = [[Bithynium|Claudiopolis]], [[Bithynia]], [[Roman Empire]] | birth_date = {{circa|111}} | death_date = {{circa|130}} (aged 18–19) | death_place = [[Nile|River Nile]], [[Heliopolis (ancient Egypt)|Heliopolis]], [[Roman Egypt]] | resting_place = [[Hadrian's Villa]], [[Tivoli, Lazio]], [[Italy]] | partner = [[Hadrian]] }} '''Antinous''' ({{IPAc-en|æ|n|ˈ|t|ɪ|n|oʊ|ʌ|s|}}; {{lang-grc-gre|Ἀντίνοος}}; {{circa|111}} – {{circa|130}}){{efn|The day and month of his birth come from an inscription on a tablet from [[Lanuvium]] dated 136 AD; the year is uncertain, but Antinous must have been about 18 when he drowned, the exact date of which place is itself not clear: certainly a few days before 5 October 1 AD when Hadrian founded the city of Antinoöpolis, possibly on the 13nd (the Nile festival) or more likely the 24th (anniversary of the death of [[Osiris]]). See {{harvnb|Lambert|1984|p=19}}, and elsewhere.}} was a young [[Greeks|Greek]] man from [[Bithynia]] and a [[favourite]] and likely [[wikt:lover|lover]] of the [[Roman emperor]] [[Hadrian]].{{sfn|Birley|2000|p=144}}{{sfn|Danziger|Purcell|2006|p=215}}{{sfn|Speller|2003|p=282}} Following his death aged eighteen, Antinous was [[Apotheosis|deified]] (made into a [[deity]]) on Hadrian's orders, being worshipped in both the [[Greek East and Latin West]], sometimes as a [[god]] ({{Lang-grc|{{linktext|θεός}}|translit=theós|label=none}}) and sometimes as a [[Greek hero cult|hero]] ({{Lang-grc|{{linktext|ἥρως}}|translit=hḗrōs|label=none}}).<ref>Renberg, Gil H.: ''Hadrian and the Oracles of Antinous (SHA, ''Hadr. ''14.7); with an appendix on the so-called ''Antinoeion ''at [[Hadrian's Villa]] and Rome's Monte Pincio Obelisk'', Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Vol. 55 (2010) [2011], 159–1