i used to have a poster of antinous in my room.
he’s one of the most gorgeous people to have ever graced the earth.
In Oscar Wilde’s story “The Young King”, a reference is made to the king kissing a statue of ‘the Bithynian slave of Hadrian’ in a passage describing the young king’s aesthetic sensibilities and his “…strange passion for beauty…”. (wikipedia)
obviously oscar was a fan, too.
oh well, lucky hadrian.
(via vlajean)