• PugJesus@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Explanation: The Emperor Hadrian had a wife, though one would struggle to eke out any personal reasons for being married. Hadrian was… famously inclined towards men, and deified his dead 19-year-old male lover (pictured in the bust of the young man in the meme) as the god of male beauty and love.

    … Hadrian and his wife were not particularly close, as one might guess.