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VITHYNION (Ancient city) TURKEY
Antinoeia, annual festivals and quinquennial games, which the Roman emperor Hadrian
instituted in honour of his favourite, Antinous, after he was drowned in the Nile,
or, according to others, had sacrificed himself for his sovereign, in a fit of
religious fanaticism. The festivals were celebrated at Athens, Eleusis, in Bithynia,
at Argos, and Mantineia, in which places he was worshipped as a god. Afterwards
this festival appears to have been discontinued (Spart. Hadr., c. 14; Dio Cass.
lxix. 10; Paus. viii. 9,4)
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