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Antinous
[ an-tin-oh-uhs ]
noun
, Classical Mythology.
- the chief suitor of Penelope, killed by Odysseus upon his return from Troy.
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Opposite is a lovely Antinous, in no mythological character, but in simple, melancholy beauty.
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To the relief of Antinous Winckelmann gave the place of honour which it now occupies.
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The statues of Antinous fully realise Keats's ideal of Endymion.
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But history only whets our curiosity, for ancient writers are neglectful or tantalisingly bald in their allusions to Antinous.
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This is Antinous, who now makes the most elaborate defense of the case of the Suitors that is to be found in the poem.
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