Description: This is the website for author Melanie J. McDonald, or writer Melanie McDonald, the author of Eromenos, a novel of Imperial Rome, historical fiction specifically about Antinous of Bithynia and the Roman Emperor Hadrian. The Greek ephebe Antinous was the eromenos and Hadrian, the fourteenth emperor of Imperial Rome, the erastes in a relationship that was an unofficial gay marriage. Antinous traveled with Hadrian as part of the Imperial Roman court throughout Rome, Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, and Africa, and
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