Hello and welcome to Queer as Facts, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world and throughout time.

I'm Alice.

I'm Jason.

And I'm Eli.

And today we're talking about the Roman Emperor Hadrian and his lover and Tynous.

Before we begin, I'd like to acknowledge the Wondry Woyurang people of the Kulin Nation

as the traditional owners of the land on which we record this podcast, and to pay my respect

to their elders past and present.

We recognise them as the custodians of an oral history tradition far older than this podcast.

We also have some content warnings before we begin this episode.

This episode will include extensive conversations about relationships between adults and adolescents.

We'll also be mentioning slavery.

There were discussions of death by drowning and by suicide, discussions of human sacrifice,

and we'll also be discussing historic and more recent homophobia and modern day racism.

If any of that sounds like something you don't want to listen to, feel free to skip this

episode and check out our other content.

Haydwen was the Roman Emperor from the year 117 CE to the year 138 CE, which make this

episode a part of our series on Roman Emperors.

If you're interested in catching up on the series, we started off with a general episode

on male sexuality in ancient Rome, and we've also done episodes looking specifically at

Julia Caesar and the Emperor in Nero.

To be clear, by skipping from Nero to Hadrian and not covering any of the emperors in between,

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