Archaeology, Historicity, and Homosexuality in the New Cultus of Antinous
Perceptions of the Past in a Contemporary Pagan Religion
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsnr.37618Keywords:
Antinous, modern Paganism, homosexuality, queer, Reconstructionism, Classical Reception StudiesAbstract
In the second century, the Roman Emperor Hadrian deified his male lover, Antinous, after the latter drowned in the Nile. Antinous’ worship was revived in the late twentieth century, primarily by gay men and other queer-identified individuals, with Antinous himself being recast as “the Gay God.”
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