What Does Antinous Mean?

Antinous or Antinoös was a Greek youth from Bithynia and a favourite beloved of the Roman emperor Hadrian. After his premature death before his twentieth birthday, Antinous was deified on Hadrian's orders, being worshipped in both the Greek East and Latin West, sometimes as a god and sometimes merely as a hero.

What is the meaning of Antinous?

Antinous. an-tin′ō-us, n. an ideal of youthful manly beauty, from the name of the favourite of the Roman emperor Hadrian so famous in ancient art.

Is Antinous a word?

noun Classical Mythology. the chief suitor of Penelope, killed by Odysseus upon his return from Troy.