Antinous
historical figure · 4 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
in the texts
Orations
One of Penelope's suitors in the Odyssey, reproached by the disguised Odysseus for refusing hospitality.
for he has represented Eumaeus, a slave and poor, nonetheless receiving Odysseus well with food and bed, while the suitors out of wealth and insolence did not very readily share with him even of others' goods, as he is himself represented saying to Antinous, reproaching his meanness:
For him he has made the most boastful of the suitors and the most licentious;
whereas Antinous and Eurymachus, whom Homer called kings, were wretched and ill-fated.
Protrepticus
Beautiful youth deified by a Roman emperor out of love, cited by Clement as proof that pagan gods are recent human fabrications.
there is a temple of Antinous, and a city;
Ad Nationes
Historical youth deified in Roman practice, cited as an easy case of apotheosis.
Who, finally, disputed Antinous's title to divinity?
Adversus Marcionem
Youth deified in Tertullian's own era, cited as a recent parallel to Marcion's invented god.
Otherwise, if man will invent a god in the way that Romulus invented Consus and Tatius Cloacina and Hostilius Pavor and Metellus Alburnus and a certain one before this time Antinous, this will be lawful for others too.