tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post6815875810299427547..comments2024-03-28T14:19:53.973+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Antinous ... why did he have to be killed?Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-33275074767083374422019-03-01T02:50:44.362+00:002019-03-01T02:50:44.362+00:00Not long ago I read that the temple in which Anton...Not long ago I read that the temple in which Antonious was drowned was one dedicated to a god of virility and that Hadrian had the boy's replacement on hand.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13905128693760706649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-76855581802838312802019-02-22T10:51:00.932+00:002019-02-22T10:51:00.932+00:00Father, if you will excuse a small exhibition of p...Father, if you will excuse a small exhibition of pedantry, I believe that you may have erred in your quotation from Laurence Binyon, who wrote 'They shall grow not old' rather than '...not grow old.'David McConkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11518633144251571627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-2892972609997032652019-02-20T15:11:04.809+00:002019-02-20T15:11:04.809+00:00I didn't google but looked at Seyffert instead...I didn't google but looked at <a href="https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofclas00seyfuoft/page/36" rel="nofollow">Seyffert</a> instead. His account is rather less... ummm... sensational than Fr Hunwicke's. Although, not as much fun, perhaps. <br /><br />Éamonnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11560394580179348894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-62362096040056198362019-02-19T20:00:51.839+00:002019-02-19T20:00:51.839+00:00What an attuned, speculative mind you have, Father...What an attuned, speculative mind you have, Father, for all sorts of interesting and peculiar things.Ambrosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07000035954327077211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-29400100447987509142019-02-19T14:52:15.305+00:002019-02-19T14:52:15.305+00:00Antinous ... why did he have to be killed?
Becaus...Antinous ... why did he have to be killed?<br /><br />Because he was an arrogant and obnoxious danger to Odysseus, Penelope and Telemachus. Oh wait….(googles)...<br /><br />Well, what do you know- there was a real Antinous! I learn so much from this blog. It fills in so many gaps in my knowledge.Grant Milburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11381331872077276383noreply@blogger.com