#again NOT romanticising weird noncy roman relationships but my man hadrian was fucking heartbroken and literally everyone said so | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

the-casbah-way · 2 years ago

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this lecturer is giving me major homophobic vibes the way she is talking abt antinous and hadrian ,,,, she keeps acting like it’s physically hurting her to call them lovers she keeps hesitating before saying it,, and she laughed when she read a dio quote abt antinous drowning ,,, AND THEN SHE SAID “hadrian moved on pretty quickly because he went on to continue the eastern tour” HE FORMED A CULT FOR HIM ?? HE DEIFIED HIM AND PUT UP STATUES OF HIM ALL OVER THE EMPIRE AND NAMED A CITY AND A STAR AFTER HIM ???? HE STAYED IN EGYPT FOR ALMOST A YEAR AFTER HE DIED how is that just moving on. also he had to fuckin go back to rome eventually even if he was grieving he wouldn’t stay in egypt forever ??? of course he continued the tour he was the fucking emperor he had shit to do

#i’m not one of those ppl that romanticises their relationship or whatever i’m just saying she wouldn’t talk this way if they were straight #kind of actually annoyed that she said he moved on fast #again NOT romanticising weird noncy roman relationships but my man hadrian was fucking heartbroken and literally everyone said so #have you not read any of the very famous accounts of ppl mocking him for grieving so much #IF UR A HOMOPHOBE WHY WOULD YOU STUDY ANCIENT ROME. WHY WOULD YOU AGREE TO GIVE A TALK ON HADRIAN of all mfs #like. ik the focus of the lecture was the tours but that doesn’t mean u have to downplay or gloss over his bf #when it’s literally one of the most famous things about him.

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