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Although married to a relative of Trajan, Hadrian openly loved a Greek youth, Antinous, who is known to have accompanied him on at least one lion-hunting trip. His relationship with this boy would have raised few eyebrows - the Roman élite embraced homoerotic culture and celebrated it in works of art. Hadrian's reaction to his death, however, was unprecedented. After Antinous drowned in the Nile in A.D. 130, Hadrian mourned him as if he were an Empress and encouraged cults to venerate the lowly youth. He surrounded himself with marble statues and busts of Antinous, at least...
When the Roman emperor Hadrian ascended to power in A.D. 117, he inherited a state in crisis. Trajan, his predecessor, had stretched the Roman Empire to its furthest reaches through aggressive military campaigns, sparking rebellions from Britain to the shores of the Persian Gulf. Once installed as ruler, Hadrian reversed the expansionist trend and withdrew troops from what is now Iraq. Thorsten Opper, a curator of Greek and Roman antiquities at the British Museum, says Hadrian realized then what coalition forces realize now: that it's easier to control territory through a friendly, well-functioning government than through occupation...
...remember the 1999 Duke team, right? It was hailed as the "Team of the Century" and a validation of the Blue Devils as the collegiate athletic program of the decade. With Elton Brand, Trajan Langdon a.k.a. the Alaskan Assassin, Chris Carrawell, Shane Battier, and Corey Maggette, Duke steamrolled to a 16-0 ACC regular season record and a 37-1 mark entering the championship game...
Chris Carrawell added 14 points for Duke, while Trajan Landgon had 12 and Nate James 11. Brand had 12 rebounds, while James and Maggette added 10 each...
...course, different from both. Unlike Ingres, Daumier wasn't interested in ideal form or perfect "Greek" contour, even though classical prototypes inform his work -- how far, one can easily judge from his scenes of refugees straggling across an open landscape, which bear a distinct relation to the friezes on Trajan's Column, known to him from engravings. He loved to guy the sacred Antique, but it was the kind of satire that could only be done by an artist fully intimate with his target. And although he got a lot from Delacroix, admiring the fluidity of his line...