Announcing Rheinsberg: Frederick the Great discussion post 10

[cahn]

So for anyone who is reading this and would like to learn more about Frederick the Great and his contemporaries, but who doesn't want to wade through 500k (600k?) words worth of comments and an increasingly sprawling comment section:

We now have a community, rheinsberg, that has quite a lot of the interesting historical content (and more coming regularly), organized nicely with lots of lovely tags so if there's any subject you are interested in it is easy to find :D

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Re: Antinous - The Reader's Report

[selenak]

Fritz had Pausanias and Cassius Dio, both in hand-bound copies with additional handwritten pages in his library. Alas, the Cassius Dio was a victim of WWII, but the Pausanias is still there; our author says the handwritten remarks are mostly text excerpts. And, as he points out, what Fritz didn‘t own were the more negative Hadrian and Antinous descriptions, as given by Aurelius Victor and in the anonymous Historia Augusta.

Ganymed: actually, he was called that twice. During his first time in France (age of Louis XIV); the first document we have when he‘s referred to as Antinous for sure, says our author, is Algarotti‘s letter while working for the Saxons when Wenzel is shopping him around. Then he becomes Ganymed again for the first time in writing in a catalogue of an art books & copies shop in 1794, the first time reasonably cheap plastic copies are sold. Catalogue is from the Rost‘sche Kunstbuchhandlung in Leipzig. (And it’s definitely this statue, the catalogue even says it’s the one owned by the One King. Simultanously, German tour guide books still call him Antinous as well until 1823, the last time he‘s referred to under that name; during his second time in France, with Napoleon, he was back to Ganymed as well. And then, in the second half of the 19th century, „Praying Boy“ becomes the new designation.

Re: Antinous - The Reader's Report

[mildred_of_midgard]

Perfect, thank you on both counts!