Antinous (disambiguation)

Antinous (111–130 CE) was the favorite and lover of Roman Emperor Hadrian.

Antinous can also refer to:

Arts

Literature

Antinous son of Eupeithes, one of the chief suitors of Penelope in Homer's Odyssey
Antinous, a 1918 collection of English verse by Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa

Music

Antinous, a 1990s composition by António Chagas Rosa

Sculpture

Antinous Farnese, a statue of Hadrian's favorite, once owned by the Farnese family
Antinous Mondragone, a colossal bust of Hadrian's favorite, discovered at Frascati before 1730
Capitoline Antinous, a statue discovered in the 18th Century at Hadrian's Villa, now believed to be a Roman copy of a statue of Hermes
Statue of Antinous (Delphi), a statue discovered in 1894 at Delphi, Greece

Astronomy

Antinous (constellation), an obsolete constellation, originally named by Hadrian after his favorite
Antinous (crater), a feature of Tethys, a moon of Saturn
1863 Antinous, an asteroid discovered in 1948, named for the Homeric figure

People

Antinous of Epirus (died 168 BCE), a Molossian chieftain

Ships

Antinous, French renaming of the SMS Wolf (auxiliary cruiser) of the Imperial German Navy, scrapped in 1931
SS Antinous (1920), an American 6,000 ton merchant vessel sunk by the German submarine U-512 in 1942
SS Antinous (1943), a Type C2 ship transferred to the United States Navy as USS Baxter (APA-94), sold in 1947 and scrapped in 1968
SS Antinous (1944), a Type C2 ship scrapped in 1970

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