OFH Throwback- Episode #72- Did Emperor Hadrian Murder His Teenage Lover?
Our Fake History
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🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In this throwback episode Sebastian takes you back to the start of Season 4 to explore the historical reputation of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. Hadrian has been celebrated as one of Rome’s “five good emperors”, but is that reputation actually deserved? Hadrian’s reputation is complicated by the mysterious death of his teenage lover, Antinous. What should we believe about this strange chapter in the life of one of Rome’s most celebrated emperors? Tune-in and find out how radical beards, fantastical walls, and ancient man-love all play a role in the story.
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| 0:59.0 | Music at audible.com.com.uk. Hello and welcome to this very special throwback episode of Our Fake History. |
| 1:06.8 | Today I am throwing you back to the very first episode of season four. |
| 1:11.2 | That was episode number 72 titled, Did Emperor Hadrian Murder His Teenage Lover? |
| 1:21.2 | Now, the story of how this particular episode came to be is a little different than most our fake history episodes. |
| 1:28.7 | This is one of the few times I've let myself be influenced by outside forces about what |
| 1:35.8 | topic I should pick for the show. Let me tell you the tale. A friend of mine was working |
| 1:41.7 | at the Canadian Opera Company and they had this new opera |
| 1:46.2 | coming up that was going to be about the life of Hadrian and his lover Antinous that had been |
| 1:54.2 | written by the great Canadian songwriter Rufus Wainwright. Yes, Rufus Wainwright also writes operas. So he calls me up and says, |
| 2:05.8 | Sebastian, we're doing this really cool opera. It's based on Roman history. It might make for an |
| 2:11.6 | amazing story on our fake history. And I'm like, oh, you want to do like a cross promotion? And he's like, well, the Canadian opera company doesn't really have a lot of money for |
| 2:22.9 | this sort of thing. |
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