Antinous

American  

[an-tin-oh-uhs] / ænˈtɪn oʊ əs /

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. the chief suitor of Penelope, killed by Odysseus upon his return from Troy.

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Example Sentences

A private dealer in Paris manages this consistent account, sometimes posting 19th-century busts for sale, more often pointing out lookers in public collections: a finely worked Bernini at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam; funerary monuments in a Milan cemetery or a tender Antinous, twink boyfriend of the emperor Hadrian, in Rome’s steampunk Centrale Montemartini.

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The story shifts seven years earlier to Greece, when Hadrian meets Antinous, who, during a hunt, killed a boar charging at the emperor.

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Antinous is presented as the dominant partner, as the orchestra swells and blares like a Hollywood costume drama’s film score.

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And before his murder, Antinous, defending the Jews against attacks from sniping Roman senators, sings a paean to inclusion: “We are each in all, all in each.”

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Alas, “Hadrian,” which tells of this first-century Roman emperor’s love affair with Antinous, a beautiful young Greek man, is an exasperating opera, all the more so because whole stretches of Mr. Wainwright’s music are beguiling, inventive and unabashedly romantic.

From New York Times