🪷 #Antinous and #Hadrian were hailed as the new #Ganymede and #Zeus on their triumphal entry into #Pergamum in spring 129 AD. #AntoniusSubia says: "We remember the love of Hadrian for Antinous when Hellenism prevailed over the chaos of fear and rage": https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/04/pergamum-feted-antinous-hadrian-as-new.html 🪷

🪷 #Antinous & #Hadrian were hailed as the new #Ganymede and #Zeus on their triumphal entry into #Pergamum in spring 129 AD: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/04/pergamum-feted-antinous-hadrian-as-new.html This 360-degree panorama at Berlin's #Pergamon Museum shows #Antinoos and Hadrian (circled in red) entering the city's amphitheater.🪷

The Vanished Library - Luciano Canfora. It tells of warring librarians & catrocide: The book digs into the interesting details surrounding the Great Library of Alexandria and its rival, the Library of Pergamum. There are many juicy details here, such as the thwarted attempts to secure Aristotle’s Treatises. Neleus buried them in a cellar and offered only fakes or minor texts. The librarian book hunters who roamed the world and used dubious means to secure scrolls. The visiting Roman who killed a cat and was immediately murdered by an angry mob. Timons, disdainfully referred to the devoted copyists as a ‘nest of caged scribbblers’. The broader project was to obtain an original or copy of every piece of writing in the known world. As Umberto Eco said, ‘a library is the memory of humankind’. #Alexandria #greatlibrary #papyrus #pergamum #books

🪷 #Antinous & #Hadrian were hailed as the new #Ganymede and #Zeus on their triumphal entry into #Pergamum in spring 129 AD: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/04/pergamum-feted-antinous-hadrian-as-new.html 🪷