Antinous

[ an-tin-oh-uhs ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.

1. the chief suitor of Penelope, killed by Odysseus upon his return from Troy.

Example Sentences

An obelisk installed in 2017 honors Antinous, an enslaved young man who was Roman emperor Hadrian’s lover and has been called a “gay god.”

From Washington Post

A private dealer in Paris manages this consistent account, sometimes posting 19th-century busts for sale, more often pointing out lookers in public collections: a finely worked Bernini at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam; funerary monuments in a Milan cemetery or a tender Antinous, twink boyfriend of the emperor Hadrian, in Rome’s steampunk Centrale Montemartini.

From New York Times

The young Canadian tenor Isaiah Bell brings a sweetly lyrical, if sometimes strained, voice and an innocently handsome look to Antinous.

From New York Times

Antinous has been dead for a year, and the circumstances of his death are still unclear to the emperor.

From New York Times

Hadrian leans mournfully against the sarcophagus containing Antinous’s body as five male dancers in G-strings stand statuesque in the background.

From New York Times