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Antinous, Archaeology and History*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2010

Caroline Vout
Caroline Vout
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham, caroline.vout@nottingham.ac.uk
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Antinous was the young, male lover of Hadrian. His premature death in A.D. 130 led to an oddly extravagant commemoration. Post-Renaissance he became one of the most collectable portrait types. This article re-examines the corpus of portraits as it is currently configured. Its primary aim is not to exclude or add pieces but to question the criteria on which inclusion and exclusion are based. This questioning cuts to the heart of issues of identification, dating, and authenticity which impact on art-historical classification more generally. It exposes how in some ways the modern Antinous is one of the discipline's making.

Keywords

ANTINOUSHADRIANROMAN PORTRAITUREROMAN ICONOGRAPHYROMAN HISTORYROMAN STATUESROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY
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Articles
Information
The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 95 , November 2005 , pp. 80 - 96
Copyright
Copyright © Caroline Vout 2005. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

References

* I thank Mary Beard, Torsten Krude, Robin Osborne, Rolf Schneider, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, the Editor, and the anonymous readers of JRS for their challenging comments on drafts of this paper. I also thank the British School of Rome for its support of this project in its early stages and the Torlonia family for access to the Villa Albani-Torlonia in Rome. I dedicate it to Keith Hopkins.