The Love God
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (904 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1500902543 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 642 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Brilliant Novel About Antinous Ernest Gill This is the most brilliant novel about Antinous to appear in half a century right up there with Marguerite Yourcenar's landmark MEMOIRS OF HADRIAN 60 years ago. Martin Campbell traces the life of Antinous from the moment his tousle-haired head emerges from his mother's womb under auspicious stars in Asia Minor to the moment his head sinks beneath the swirling waters of the Nile on a starry evening in Egypt. Antinous comes to life as a young man of breath-taking beauty who is filled with conflicting pa. Martin Campbell Delivers The Antinous Epic For Which We Have Waited So Long Michael D. Miller I absolutely recommend The Love God to anyone who has even a passing interest in the greatest love story (n)ever told. Martin Campbell, with exquisite research, and remaining true to academia's current take on the Hadrian & Antinous relationship, manages to deliver a page turner that I found to be an urgent read. I had the good fortune to read the book while traveling in Rome to visit the Obelisk of Antinous and Hadrian's Villa, and could feel 2000 years fall away in the blink of an eye as Hadrian and . It's impossible to not fall in love with Antinoos Regis Rodrigues It's impossible to not fall in love with Antinoos, and all the other so vivid characters. I had discovered Antinous when I was young reading "Memoirs of Hadrian" by Marguerite Youcenar , and now "The Love God", by Martin Campbell, I'm rediscovering this so fascinating character. like the Mary Renault's novel, this is a great and must-read book for lovers of the Boy God and the ancient history lovers. A sad detail is that while I was reading about the Hadrian-Antinoos and his court trip to the Middle Ea
When the time comes for a tour of his empire, the emperor chooses Antinous as an advisor, and together they set off on the dangerous voyage to the cold lands of the North. Across much of the pre-Christian Roman Empire sexuality was expressed very differently, but even in Ancient Rome romance can be a dangerous thing when it is with the wrong person. But he can never quite shake his dreams of intimacy with the greatest man in Rome. Scorned in public and determined to uphold the traditions of Ancient Rome romance gay lovers feel for each other is swept aside in a plot to remove the low-born Bithynian from his new-found position of power.. That one look sparks a world of historical romance intrigue for the young Antinous, and he is taken to Rome to be inducted into the Paedagogium, where the noble sons of the city are trained for their future lives. Antinous is handsome, athletic and intelligent, but being the son of a Bithynian fruit trader, his ambition to get to Rome is very distant indeed – that is, until the great Emperor Hadrian appears in his home city of Claudiopolis and their eyes meet across a crowded square. One of the greatest historical love stories the world has ever seen is not one that is taught in schools. Shipwrecked off the coast of Britannia and staying in the royal palace of the Atrebate king, the two men find themselves lost as historical romance gay lovers with passio