Editing Antinous (section)

===Birth and childhood===
[[File:Antinous, from Hadrian's Villa, late Hadrianic period 130-138 AD, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome (12453833504).jpg|thumb|Head of Antinous found at [[Hadrian's Villa]], dating from 130–138&nbsp;AD, now at the [[Museo_Nazionale_Romano#Palazzo_Massimo_alle_Terme|Museo Nazionale Romano]], [[Rome]], [[Italy]]]]
Antinous was born to a Greek family near the city of [[Bolu|Claudiopolis]],<ref>Cassius Dio pp. 444–445 {{cite book| title = Roman History}}</ref>{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=286}} which was located in the [[Roman province]] of [[Bithynia]],{{sfn|Gómez|2019|p=230}} in what is now north-west Turkey.{{sfn|Cassius Dio|p=447}}{{sfn|Lambert|1984|p=15}} He was born in the territory to the east of the city called Mantineion, a rural locality:

{{quote|This was important later for the cult character expressed in his statues: he was a figure of the country, a woodland boy.<ref>R.R.R. Smith :Antinous: boy made god, 2018 p15</ref>|[[R. R. R. Smith]]}}

The year of Antinous's birth is not recorded, although it is estimated that it was probably between 110 and 112&nbsp;[[Common Era|CE]].{{sfn|Lambert|1984|p=19}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Antinoüs |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Antinous |website=Britannica |date=15 June 2023 |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.}}</ref> Early sources record that his birthday was in November, and although the exact date is not known,{{sfn|Jones|2010|p=75}} [[Royston Lambert]], one of Antinous's biographers, asserted that it was probably on 27 November.{{sfn|Lambert|1984|p=19}} Given the location of his birth and his physical appearance, it is likely that part of his ancestry was not Greek.{{sfn|Lambert|1984|p=20}}