January 24th, 76 A.D. -Hadrian born, perhaps in Rome, or possibly Italica, Spain

November 27th, 111 - Antinous is born in Bithynion-Claudiopolis

August 11th, 117 - Hadrian is declared Emperor by the legions while at Nikomedia, upon death of Trajan.

July 9th, 118 - Hadrian returns to Rome for the first time since his ascension. He is there consecrated by the Senate, and made Pontifex Maximus.

June 123 - Hadrian meets Antinous, either at Bithynion or Nikomedia. Antinous is twelve years old.

August/September 123 - Antinous is sent to Rome, and admitted in the Paedagogium

Years 123-128 - Antinous comes to prominence in Hadrian's life




The Imperial Tour




August/September 128 - Imperial entourage arrives in Corinth, Antinous is the acknowledged favorite of Hadrian.

September 128 - Arrival at Athens

September 128 - Hadrian and Antinous are initiated into the Mysteries of Eleusis




February/March 129 - The court arrives in Asia Minor after spending the winter in Athens.

March/ April 129 - Antinous returns to Bithynion as the star of the Imperial court, after having left six years before.

May 129 - The Boar hunt represented on the Arch of Constantine tondo may have taken place in Bithynia or elsewhere in Asia Minor

July 129 - The court arrives at Antioch and tours Syria

July 129 - Hadrian and his young male favorites climb Mt. Casius, to the Temple of Zeus located at the top to watch the sunrise. While the priest is making sacrifice, lighting strikes killing both the sacrificial victim and the priest.

August 129 - The entourage visits Armenia and the Parthian border, meeting with an embassy from the Persian King Osroes, and settling a peace treaty that would endure beyond throughout the reigns of Hadrian, Antoninus and Marcus Aurelius.

Winter 129-130 - returning from the Parthian border, Hadrian's court spends the winter months in Antioch.




February 130 - Hadrian sets out with his immediate circle for Palmyra and then south to Petra in Arabia.

March 130 - The small court of Hadrian's male favorites crosses the Jordan and enters Jerusalem, perhaps in time for the Passover.

April-July 130 - Hadrian begins his examination of the Jewish religion and begins making reforms, trying to bring it into harmony with the rest of Rome. He outlawed circumcision at this time, and may have even began building his Temple of Capitoline Jupiter atop the Temple mount. But this most likely occurred after the Jewish revolt had been defeated.

August/ September 130 - The Imperial court enters Sinai, and Egypt.

September 130 - Arrival at Alexandria

September 130 - The Hunt of the Maurosian Lion of Libya about which Pancrates wrote his epic poem.

September/ October 130 - The sacred barge of Antinous sets sail up the Nile as the waters of the inundation began to subside.

October 130 - The flotilla of the court stops at Giza, Memphis, and Heliopolis.

October 22nd, 130 - The court is in Hermopolis in time for the festival of Osiris.

October 28th, 130 - At Hir-wer, just south of Hermopolis, Antinous dies by drowning in the Nile.

October 30th, 130 - Hadrian founds the city of Antinopolis where the body of Antinous was found.

November 18th, 130 - The entourage continues up the Nile arriving at their final destination, Thebes.




Apotheosis




January 12th, 131 - After 72 days the mummification process is complete, and the body of Antinous is removed from the nitron that has preserved it.

March 131 - The ceremonies of deification are completed, and the fully dressed and anointed body of Antinous is carried upon its boat shaped bier.

March 131 - The Games of Antinopolis, called the Antinoeia, are inaugurated, and the Ecumenical Religion of Antinous is formally proclaimed.

September 131 - Hadrian returns to Greece and at Eleusis he undergoes the final and highest initiation of Eleusis.

December 131 - Temple of Olympian Zeus completed and consecrated by Hadrian.




March 132 - Jewish revolt led by Bar Kochba begins in Judea

Summer 132 - Hadrian is shown the new star that had come into being in the constellation Aquila, he orders that a new constellation be drawn within the wings of the Eagle.

October 132 - The Temple of Antinous at Hadrian's Villa at Tibur, known as the Canopus is completed and consecrated. This is the possible tomb of Antinous.




Spring 134 - Hadrian is in Palestine, and brings the Jewish war to its conclusion, renaming Jerusalem Aelius Capitolina, building the Temple of Zeus where the Tmeple of Jehovah once stood, building a Temple to Venus over the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, and a Garden of Adonis at the shrine of the Nativity in Bethlehem. The Jewish Diaspora begins.

October 134 - The Antinoeian Games of Mantinea begin, Hadrian is present. Coins depicting Antinous the God are issued simultaneously across the east. The religion of Antinous is at its hight. The statues of Antinous are copied by the thousands




April 21st, 136 - The Temple of Venus in Rome is completed and consecrated by Hadrian.

October, 136 - Temple of Antinous at Lanuvium is consecrated.

December 136 - Hadrian adopts Lucius Ceionius Commodus as his heir.




January 1st, 138 - Lucius Commodus dies.

February 28th, 138 - Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as heir, and insists that Antoninus adopt as his heirs the seven-year old son of Lucius Commodus, named Lucius Verus, and the seventeen year old Marcus Aurelius, thereby beginning the Antonine dynasty.

July 10th, 138 - Hadrian dies at the age of sixty-two and one half.

Antinous of Bithynia

The Temple of Antinous