Rome is a city living beneath the shadow of the Vatican. While most tour companies shy away from ruffling feathers in this Catholic epicenter, one tour company has taken a somewhat bold step in offering a historical walk centered around the love between the Roman Empire's most admired emperor, Hadrian and his young Greek lover Antinous.While traveling together through Egypt grief struck when Antinous drowned in the waters of the Nile. Upon his lovers death, Hadrian mourned him by requesting he be deified into a God, an aspect of Roman society saved solely for the Emperors themselves.
Hadrian named cities after Antinous, minted coins with his image incised into the precious metals and decorated the empire with statues of a man said to be so aesthetically pleasing he drove the emperor to a lifetime of sorrow.
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