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Conversations: When the Emperors Ruled Greece, the Roman Period w/ Dan Stewart

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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The Legend of Hadrian

Hadrian is kind of following in well established footsteps at that point. He's called the Phil Hellene in terms of his kind of epithet as an emperor. So he builds a lot of like really big kind of infrastructure projects in Greece. And of course famously he takes up with Antinois who is a complicated figure in his own right but I think it's probably safest to explain him as like a victim of sexual violence probably in contemporary terms rather than a great gay love story which is how he used to be presented.

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