Antinois is a young boy who Hadrian seems to have met. He was his Hadrian's great traveler around the empire. Antinois has the beauty of a eunuch, that is what makes him so precious. But he's not a eunuchs. And hadrian sends him back to Rome to be kind of educated. The question that is unknowable is how Antinois felt about it. I mean, I personally cannot imagine he would have been anything other than on one level very grateful for being raised up from a provincial backwater.
At its peak, the Roman Empire was perhaps the greatest civilisation in history. But like so many cultures before and after it, it declined and finally ended.
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