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AD 111-130). Antinous was emperor Hadrian’s (AD 76-138) companion, favorite, and beloved. Following his untimely and mysterious death in the Nile, the emperor deified Antinous, named a star after him, built him a city, and commissioned statues that were dispersed throughout the Roman Empire and praised for their exceptional beauty. Although scholarship has analyzed the historical figure, art history’s and literature’s obsession with Antinous remains in the margins of scholarly interest. Today Antinous remains popular in gay subcultures as can be seen in a number of homoerotic fan fiction novels. Representing Antinous and his enigmatic relationship with the Roman emperor in popular culture is grounded in art as much as it is in history. The emphasis of this interdisciplinary dissertation is not the exploration of the historical figure’s sexual orientation, whether Antinous was gay, but how eighteenth-century art history and nineteenth-century German fiction imagined the relationship between Hadrian and Antinous. The first chapter explores the origin of the Antinous reception in late eighteenth-century art history, the second chapter outlines the emergence of Antinous as a marker for a homosexual identity in the middle of the nineteenth century, and the last two chapters analyze the literary devices that allowed his appearance in two popular historical novels in the late nineteenth century.","Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2023-08-01","The student, Johannes Frohlich, accepted the attached license on 2021-07-02 at 08:54.","The student, Johannes Frohlich, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2021-07-02 at 09:06.","This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2021-07-06 at 15:27.","DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #16748 on 2022-01-12 at 12:52:49","Made available in DSpace on 2022-01-12T22:34:50Z (GMT). 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