Apotheosis of Antinous after his Tragic Death (with Isis and Apollo Conveying Him Aloft) as He ascends to take his place as the Star of Antinous adjacent to Aquila, 130 A.D.
On 27th November 111 AD, this glorious Greek boy was born in Bythinia, Asia Minor. He was proclaimed a divinity by his lover, Emperor Hadrian, after his untimely death, when he was drowned under mysterious circumstances in the river Nile, Egypt. Even more, he also became an Egyptian divinity since he was drowned in the sacred waters of Nile.
