Hephaestion was a contemporary of Alexander and it is likely that his influence might have been seen as less of a threat than these more mature companions. The reason for Hephaestion's absence from this list could be the fact that all of the exiled men were older friends of Alexander, Erigyius himself roughly 24 years older than the prince. Among those exiled by Philip II after Alexander's failed attempt to offer himself as groom to the Carian princess were Ptolemy, Nearchus, Harpalus, Erigyius and Laomedon. It implies that Hephaestion received a good education and shows that Aristotle was impressed enough by his alleged pupil to send letters throughout Alexander's expanding empire to converse with him.Ī few years after the lectures at Mieza, Hephaestion's presence was notably absent when several of Alexander's close friends were exiled as a result of the Pixodarus affair. The letters themselves no longer exist, but for them to have found their way into an official catalogue, their content must have been of some significance. More telling is Hephaestion's name being found in a catalogue of Aristotle's correspondences. Hephaestion has never been named among those who attended the lectures at Mieza, but his close friendship with Alexander at that age suggests strongly that he was numbered among them. and he went off to stroll with Hephaestion." That Alexander's exact age is given provides another clue to Hephaestion's upbringing because at fifteen Alexander and his companions were at Mieza studying under Aristotle. sailing with Hephaestion, his friend, he easily reached Pisa. According to this tale, "one day when Alexander was 15 years old. The only surviving anecdote from Hephaestion's youth comes courtesy of the Alexander Romance. As a member of the court, he may have met Alexander around this time. He is said to have become a page in 343 BC, a role common to adolescent boys of the aristocratic class in Macedon. Many scholars cite Hephaestion's age as being similar to Alexander's so it is fair to assume that he was born about 356 BC. No concise biography has ever been written about him, likely stemming from the fact that he died before Alexander and none of those among Alexander's companions who survived him would have had a need to promote someone other than themselves. 300 BC, from Pella the figure on the right is possibly Alexander the Great due to the date of the mosaic, along with the depicted upsweep of his centrally-parted hair ( anastole) the figure on the left wielding a double-edged axe (associated with Hephaistos) is perhaps Hephaestion. At the time of his own death a mere eight months later, Alexander was still planning lasting monuments to Hephaestion's memory. Hephaestion was cremated and his ashes taken to Babylon. ![]() He petitioned the oracle at Siwa to grant Hephaestion divine status and thus Hephaestion was honoured as a Divine Hero. When he died suddenly at Ecbatana around age thirty-two, Alexander was overwhelmed with grief. Alexander also made him part of the royal family when he gave him as his bride Drypetis, sister to his own second wife Stateira, both daughters of Darius III of Persia. Alexander formally made him his second-in-command when he appointed him Chiliarch of the empire. Besides being a soldier, engineer and diplomat, he corresponded with the philosophers Aristotle and Xenocrates and actively supported Alexander in his attempts to integrate the Greeks and Persians. ![]() A member of Alexander the Great's personal bodyguard, he went on to command the Companion cavalry and was entrusted with many other tasks throughout Alexander's ten-year campaign in Asia, including diplomatic missions, the bridging of major rivers, sieges and the foundation of new settlements. ![]() He was "by far the dearest of all the king's friends he had been brought up with Alexander and shared all his secrets." This relationship lasted throughout their lives, and was compared, by others as well as themselves, to that of Achilles and Patroclus. 356 BC – October 324 BC), son of Amyntor, was an ancient Macedonian nobleman and a general in the army of Alexander the Great. Hephaestion ( Ancient Greek: Ἡφαιστίων Hephaistíon c. Siege of Pelium, Battle of Thebes, Battle of the Granicus, Siege of Halicarnassus, Siege of Miletus, Battle of Issus, Siege of Tyre (332 BC), Siege of Gaza, Battle of Gaugamela, Battle of the Persian Gate, Siege of Aornos, Battle of the Hydaspes River, Mallian Campaignĭrypetis (princess of the Achaemenid dynasty in Persia) Hephaestion marble head, as of September 2015 housed in the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California
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