Editing Antinous (section)

==Historiography==
The [[classicist]] [[Caroline Vout]] noted that most of the texts dealing with Antinous's biography only dealt with him briefly and were post-Hadrianic in date, thus commenting that "reconstructing a detailed biography is impossible."{{sfn|Vout|2007|p=54}} The historian Thorsten Opper of the [[British Museum]] noted that "Hardly anything is known of Antinous's life, and the fact that our sources get more detailed the later they are does not inspire confidence."{{sfn|Opper|1996|p=170}} Antinous's biographer Royston Lambert echoed this view, commenting that information on him was "tainted always by distance, sometimes by prejudice and by the alarming and bizarre ways in which the principal sources have been transmitted to us."{{sfn|Lambert|1984|p=48}}