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Antinous

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[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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Penelope is later seen declaring that "Ithaca's king is coming back", but her main suitor Antinous refuses to believe it.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

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

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2018

After Antinous drowned in the Nile River nearby, the town of Antinopolis was founded in his honor, and he became a god, and statues of him were found throughout the Roman Empire.

From Scientific American • Apr. 17, 2014

Marble busts of Emperor Hadrian and of his beloved, Antinous, represented as a young god crowned in ivy.

From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2013

He’d never seen anything like the shell of earth that Antinous had summoned to destroy Eurymachus.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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