Antinoo Classic RingAntinous (also Antinoo or Antinos; 27 November, c. 111 before 30 October 130) was a Bithynian Greek youth and a favourite, or lover, of the Roman emperor Hadrian. He was deified after his death, being worshiped in both the Greek East and Latin West, sometimes as a god (theos) and sometimes merely as a deified mortal (heros). Antinous became associated with homosexuality in Western culture, appearing in the work of Oscar Wilde and the Portuguese poet