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loss-of-control: Alexander’s the Great’s Head, c.338-36 BCE
Antínoo - a photo on Flickriver
A close-up of "The Young Antinous", Roman bust (2nd century CE) on display at Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome. Antinous was a extraordinary handsome boy. Emperor Hadrian met him in Bythinia and fell in love, taking him to Rome. The emperor wept for Antinous publicly when, in 130 CE. the young man mysteriously drowned in the Nile