The love of an Emperor

Hadrianus loves quite a lot of things; domes, architecture, Greek culture and a young man called Antinous. Here's a a quote describing how this young man died.


Antinous, Hadrians lover who presumably drowned in the Nile.

"Antinous was from Bithynium, a city of Bithynia, which we also call Claudiopolis; he had been a favourite of the emperor and had died in Egypt, either by falling into the Nile, as Hadrian writes, or, as the truth is, by being offered in sacrifice."

Cassius Dio - Roman History LXIX 11.2
Translated by Earnest Cary