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Antinopolis (Antinoöpolis, Antinoopolis, Antinoë) (Greek: , Coptic ''Ansena''; modern Sheikh 'Ibada) was a city founded at an older Egyptian village by the Roman emperor Hadrian to commemorate his deified young beloved, Antinous, on the east bank of the Nile, not far from the site in Upper Egypt where Antinous drowned in 130 AD. Antinopolis was a little to the south of the Egyptian village of Besa (), named after the goddess and oracle of Besa, which was consulted occasionally even as late as the age of Constantine I. Antinopolis was built at the foot of the hill upon which Besa was seated. The city is located nearly opposite of Hermopolis Magna. ==History== During the New Kingdom, the city was the location of Ramesses II's great temple, dedicated to the gods of Khmun and Heliopolis. The city of Antinopolis exhibited the Graeco-Roman architecture of Hadrian's age in immediate contrast with the Egyptian style. The city was the center of the official cult of Antinous. It first belonged to the Heptanomis, but under Diocletian (286 AD) Antinopolis became the capital of the nome of the Thebaid. According to the Greek ''Menaea'', it was at Antinoe that Saint Julian underwent martyrdom during the Persecutions of Diocletian. As a cultural center, it was the native city of the 4th-century mathematician Serenus of Antinopolis. Antinopolis was still a "most illustrious' city in a surviving divorce decree of 569 AD.〔("Un acte de divorce par consentement mutuel" )〕 Antinoë was the seat of a Christian bishop by the 4th century, originally a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Ptolemais in Thebaide, but it became a metropolitan see itself in the 5th century, having as suffragans Herrmopolis Parva, Cusae, Lycopolis, Hypselis, Apollonopolis Parva, Antaeopolis, Panopolis and Theodosiopolis.〔Michel Lequien, (''Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus'' ), Paris 1740, Vol. II, coll. 593-594〕〔Gaetano Moroni, ''Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica'', (Vol. 2 ), p. 168〕〔Klaas A. Worp, (''A Checklist of Bishops in Byzantine Egypt (A.D. 325 - c. 750)'' ), in ''Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik'' 100 (1994) 283-318〕 No longer a residential bishopric, Antinoë is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.〔''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 834〕 The city was abandoned around the 10th century. It continued to host a massive Greco-Roman temple until the 19th century, when it was destroyed to feed a cement works.〔Louis Crompton, ''Homosexuality & Civilization'', Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. p. 108.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Antinopolis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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