Editing Antinous (section)

===Age===
The common image of Antinous is of an ephebic teenager{{sfn|Lambert|1984|p=24}} which would be of the age of 18 or 19 years old.<ref>[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ephebic "Ephebic"]. ''Merriam-Webster''. Accessed 25 March 2022.</ref> [[R. R. R. Smith]] suggests that the statues of Antinous are concerned with depicting the real age of Antinous at the age of his death, and that this is more likely to be "around thirteen to fourteen".<ref>Antinous: boy made god Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, 2018.  {{ISBN|978-1-910807-27-9}} p. ####</ref> An ''[[Ephebos|ephebe]]'' of eighteen or nineteen would be depicted with full pubic hair, whereas the statues of Antinous depict him as prepubescent "without pubic hair and with carefully represented soft groin tissue". As for the statues of Antinous portraying his real age, one must remember the statues are artistic representations. If the statues look young, it may only be how the artist envisioned him. Most of the artists never saw Antinous and based their works on sketches and examples. If the statues have no pubic hair, it is just as likely that the artist thought clumps of hair were unattractive and either left them off or painted them in lightly after the sculpting was done as almost all Roman statues were painted.<ref>Brinkmann, Vinzenz, and Raimund Wünsche, eds. ''Color of the Gods: Painted Sculpture in Classical Antiquity''. Munich: Stiftung Archäologie, 2007.</ref>

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