🪷 At the #Equinox we celebrate the day when #Hadrian & #Antinous slew a boar in the forests of #Antinoos' homeland #Bithynia. Boars are sacred to #Adonis, whom Diana loved and with whom Antinous is equated. Antinous Boar Hunt art by #MilanKovačević: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-sacred-boar-hunt.html 🪷

🪷 #Antinous had left #Bithynia #AsiaMinor as a nobody, but he returned as a celebrity influencer at the side of Emperor #Hadrian on arrival in #Nicomedia (modern Ízmet Turkey) in early 129 AD during their tour of the eastern provinces. Read all about his triumphant homecoming here: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/01/antinous-arrives-home-in-triumph-at.html 🪷

🪷 #Antinous had left #Bithynia #AsiaMinor as a nobody, but he returned as a celebrity influencer at the side of Emperor #Hadrian on arrival in #Nicomedia (modern Ízmet Turkey) in early 129 AD during their tour of the eastern provinces. Read all about his triumphant homecoming here: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/01/antinous-arrives-home-in-triumph-at.html 🪷

🪷 #Antinous had left #Bithynia #AsiaMinor as a nobody, but he returned as a celebrity influencer at the side of Emperor #Hadrian on arrival in #Nicomedia (modern Ízmet Turkey) in early 129 AD during their tour of the eastern provinces. Read all about his triumphant homecoming here: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/01/antinous-arrives-home-in-triumph-at.html 🪷

🪷 #Antinous had left #Bithynia #AsiaMinor as a nobody, but he returned as a celebrity influencer at the side of Emperor #Hadrian on arrival in #Nicomedia (modern Ízmet Turkey) in early 129 AD duringtheir tour of the eastern provinces. Read all about his triumphant homecoming here: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/01/antinous-arrives-home-in-triumph-at.html 🪷