15 LGBT Love Stories From Ancient Greece and Rome
15 LGBT Love Stories From Ancient Greece and Rome
- Roman Emperor Hadrian fell in love with the Bythinian peasant boy Antinous after meeting him around the year 123. The child was sent to Rome and would eventually travel the Mediterranean with the conqueror. Historian Roystan Lambert wrote in a book on the pair that Hadrian, at age 48, was in an unhappy marriage to Sabina and also lacked interest in other women. Then he fell for the teenager, who became a favorite companion. The two
- Roman Emperor Hadrian fell in love with the Bythinian peasant boy Antinous after meeting him around the year 123. The child was sent to Rome and would eventually travel the Mediterranean with the conqueror. Historian Roystan Lambert wrote in a book on the pair that Hadrian, at age 48, was in an unhappy marriage to Sabina and also lacked interest in other women. Then he fell for the teenager, who became a favorite companion. The two
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