Editing Antinous (section)

===Status===
There are various potential origins for the name "Antinous"; it is possible that he was named after the character of [[Antinous of Ithaca]], who is one of [[Penelope]]'s suitors in [[Homer]]'s epic poem, the ''[[Odyssey]]''.{{sfn|Lambert|1984|p=19}} Another possibility is that he was given the male equivalent of "Antinoë",{{sfn|Everitt|2010|p=238}} the name of a woman who was one of the founding figures of [[Mantineia]], a city which probably had close relations with Bithynia.{{sfn|Lambert|1984|p=19}} Although many historians from the [[Renaissance]] onward asserted that Antinous had been a slave, only one of around fifty early sources claims that. This possibility remains unlikely,{{sfn|Danziger|Purcell|2006|p=218}}{{sfn|Lambert|1984|pp=20-21}} as it would have proven heavily controversial to deify a former slave in Roman society.{{sfn|Lambert|1984|pp=20-21}} There is no surviving reliable evidence attesting to Antinous's family background, although Lambert believed it most likely that his family would have been peasant farmers or small business owners, thereby being socially undistinguished yet not from the poorest sectors of society.{{sfn|Lambert|1984|pp=21&ndash;22}} Lambert also considered it likely that Antinous would have had a basic education as a child, having been taught how to read and write.{{sfn|Lambert|1984|p=22}}