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Date "ANTINOUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Antinous (4 syl.). A model of manly beauty. He was the page of Hadrian, the Roman Emperor. "The polished grace of Antinöus." - Daily Telegraph. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Antinous or Antinoös (Αντινοος) (c111-130 AD), lover of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, was born to a Greek family in Bithynion-Claudiopolis, in the province of Bithynia in what is now north-west Turkey. He seems to have entered the service of the Emperor in about 123 AD, and soon became his lover.
In 130 AD Antinous died by drowning in the Nile. It is not known if his death was the result of accident, suicide, murder or religious sacrifice. All are possibilities. Hadrian declared Antinous to be a god, and statues to his memory were erected all over the Empire. Temples were built for his worship in Bithynia, Mantineia in Arcadia, and Athens, festivals celebrated in his honour and oracles delivered in his name.
As a result, this 19-year-old boy is one of the best-preserved faces from the ancient world. Many of his statues survive and may be seen in museums across Europe. They include a colossal bust in the Vatican, a bust in the Louvre, a bas-relief from the Villa Albani, a statue in the Capitoline museum, another in Berlin, another in the Lateran, and many more.
The city of Antinoopolis was founded on the ruins of Besa where he died. Many busts, gems and coins represent Antinous as the ideal type of youthful beauty, often with the attributes of some special god. Although these are obviously idealised images, they demonstrate what all contemporary writers described as Antinous's extraordinary beauty.
Marguerite Yourcenar's historical novel, Hadrian's Memoirs, (1941) recounts the relationship.
In Greek mythology, Antinous, son of Eupeithes, was the leader of Penelope's suitors and was the first to be killed by Odysseus.
Odyssey IV, 628, 660, 773; XVII, 409; XXII, 8.External Link
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Crosswords: ANTINOUS |
| Specialty definitions using "ANTINOUS": Mirrors. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Delphinus, Sagitta, Aquila, and Antinous / Sidy. Hall, sculpt. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He was Antinous wild. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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antinous | 16 |
antinous hadrian | 3 |
antinous poster | 2 |
pamphobeteus antinous | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-n-n-o-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: anoints, nations, nonsuit, onanist. | |
-2 letters: anions, anoint, nasion, nation, nitons, outsin, sonant, suntan, unions, unison. | |
-3 letters: anion, antis, aunts, autos, iotas, niton, nonas, nouns, ostia, saint, santo, satin, snout, stain, stoai, suint, sunna, tains, tonus, tunas, unais, union, units. | |
-4 letters: ains, aits, anis, anon, anti, ants, anus, aunt, auto, inns, into, ions, iota, nans. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-n-n-o-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: countians, fountains, lunations, mountains, nutations. | |
+2 letters: astounding, incautions, inoculants, insinuator, insouciant, insulation, inundators, ruinations, supination, urinations. | |
+3 letters: accountings, adjunctions, ammunitions, angulations, annulations, continuants, cunctations, denudations, enunciators, foundations, incubations, indurations, inhumations, insinuation, insinuators, insulations, intravenous, intubations, inundations, langoustine, mensuration, mountainous, nitrofurans, nodulations, nucleations, numerations, outspanning, outstanding, punctations, quaternions, ruminations, subdominant, subnational, subornation, sulfonating, sulfonation, supernation, supinations, transfusion, truncations, undulations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 4E 54 49 4E 4F 55 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -. - .. -. --- ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01001110 01010100 01001001 01001110 01001111 01010101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A N T I N O U S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 004E 0054 0049 004E 004F 0055 0053 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3548544348495553 |
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