The Breast of Antinous. The Male Body as Erotic Object in Hellenistic Image and Text
The subject of this article is the brief period of young male beauty prior to becoming a fully mature man. For this state to endure beyond the brief time allotted by Nature, something must happen (usually death) that preserves the adolescent beauty at one particular moment. Here Hadrian’s beloved An...
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| Language: | English |
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ENS Éditions
2016-06-01
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| Series: | Aitia |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/aitia/1631 |