Antinous

Antinous, (1) a character in the Odyssey of Homer, who paid court to Penelope. (2) A handsome Bithynian youth, the favourite of the Emperor Hadrian, who built Antinoopolis to his memory near the spot where he was drowned in the Nile, 122 A.D. Many statues and medals handed down his features to posterity, so that he became regarded as a type of youthful beauty.