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	Hephaestion, part one
		Hephaestion could no longer be Alexander's lover, and had to find a new role, especially since the king accepted a Persian mistress, Barsine.
		Hephaestion was sent on a diplomatic mission to Sidon, where he had to appoint a new king.
		But Hephaestion rarely served as commander during a fight; when he commanded an army that was to see battle, he was always sharing the command with a more experienced officer (e.g., Clitus, Artabazus, Perdiccas).
	www.livius.org /he-hg/hephaestion/hephaestion.htm (1355 words)

	Hephaestion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hephaestion fell sick during the games that were being held for the court and died a week later.
		Whatever the cause of Hephaestion's death, Alexander is reported to have gone mad with grief, shaving his head, as well as the manes of the army horses, cancelling all the festivities, and, legend says, crucifying the attending doctor.
		Hephaestion was the man Alexander loved, and for the rest of their lives their relationship remained as intimate as it is now irrecoverable: Alexander was only defeated once, the Cynic philosophers said long after his death, and that was by Hephaestion's thighs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hephaestion (902 words)

	HEPHAESTION - LoveToKnow Article on HEPHAESTION
		In the later campaigns in Bactria and India, he was entrusted with the task of ounding cities and colonies, and built the fleet intended to sail [own the Indus.
		HEPHAESTION, a grammarian of Alexandria, who flourished n the age of the Antonines.
		He was the author of a manual abridged from a larger work in 48 books) of Greek metres 7xe'P^""' vepl nerpuv), which is most valuable as the only complete treatise on the subject that has been preserved.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HE/HEPHAESTION.htm (240 words)

	Hephaestion
		Hephaestion was looking very much in appearance like Alexander.
		Hephaestion was grown an educated together with Alexander by the same teacher, Aristotle.
		Hephaestion's body was buried in Babylon in a magnificent tomb.
	www.geocities.com /macedoniaisgreece/Hephaestion.html (250 words)

	GayHeroes.com: Alexander the Great
		Hephaestion was the man Alexander loved, and for the rest of their lives their relationship remained as intimate as it is now irrecoverable: Alexander was only defeated once, the Cynic philosophers said long after his death, and that was by Hephaestion's thighs.
		Their affair was a strong one; Hephaestion grew to lead Alexander's cavalry most ably and to become Vizier before dying a divine hero, worthy of posthumous worship.
		With Hephaestion he remained in love, at a depth where the physical becomes almost irrelevant; and years later Bagoas [a Persian courtier] was still his recognized eromenos [Greek for "lover"];.
	www.gayheroes.com /alex.htm (2051 words)

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		Hephaestion had been prepared to ignore the ramblings until he heard one of the archers say to a companion that the king was dead.
		Hephaestion knew that he was seen as nothing but a hanger on, one who used his relationship with Alexander to advance his career.
		Hephaestion raised his head and saw that Alexander had moved across the room and was seated upon the bed, his fingers ghosting over the surface of a box that Hephaestion knew very well.
	www.angelfire.com /folk/defensivewalls/hv07.html (1176 words)

	AcademicDB - Who was Alexander the Great.
		Hephaestion was not a great general and he didn't now much about war tactics so Alexander was always protecting him by not sending him to the battlefield.
		But Hephaestion was an excellent diplomat and he was useful to Alexander because he was always advising him on critical issues.
		It is not known if Alexander and Hephaestion had physical sexual relationship and if they had it was strange because "traditional male relationship in Greece generally involved adults and boys.
	www.academicdb.com /who_was_alexander_great_5885 (494 words)

	Shoto Press \| Titles \| The Golden Vine \| History vs. alternate history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Hephaestion was the only unwavering supporter of Alexander's plan to merge Greek and Persian culture, and also enforced many other unpopular decisions without question.
		It is known that Hephaestion and Alexander had been friends since boyhood, and that they attended school together under the famous philosopher Aristotle (in fact, Hephaestion and Aristotle maintained a correspondence even when Hephaestion was away in distant lands).
		This means that Hephaestion's father would have to have been someone of rank (though not necessarily born into that privilege) in the court of King Philip, Alexander's father.
	www.shotopress.com /titles/golden_vine/hephaestion.html (1152 words)

	Alexander the Great
		This was a favorite story of Alexander, the boy, and he and Hephaestion often imagined that they were Achilles and his best friend Patroclus when they played boyhood games.
		When his doctor went to see a play Hephaestion took that opportunity to break the diet that the doctor had prescribed, and he ate a whole chicken and drank a lot of wine.
		The tomb of Hephaestion was to be a memorial of unprecedented magnificence, and Alexander spent most of his time going over the plans with his architects.
	members.aol.com /terdec/index.MAGR5.html (3111 words)

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		Hephaestion suddenly took a step toward him and he fought the urge to back away from the older man. Hephaestion was still clad in his uniform, wearing his breast plate and a white tunic.
		Hephaestion might have disciplined the soldier for his behavior, but the general wasn’t around now and Bagoas was once more subjected to their cruel jokes and harsh tone.
		Hephaestion and Alexander had been lovers long before he had entered their life and his presence, his desire, was complicating their relationship.
	www.paranoid.nl /avalon/what.html (12314 words)

	Reassurances (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Hephaestion smirked, amused by the boy's outrage and touched by his loyalty to a man who probably had not deserved it.
		Hephaestion's head whipped about and he propelled Alexander into his tent, fumbling for the oil lamp and lighting it with trembling hands with the flints.
		Hephaestion felt himself sinking; he thought it was in his head but when they broke for air next, the soft Persian rugs crinkled beneath him.
	www.midnightryder.com /wolfiesden/bagoasreassurances.html (3271 words)

	Hephaestion - Alexander The Great - Closest Friend and Lover of Alexander - Hephaestion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Hephaestion was a Macedonian nobleman, closest friend and alledged lover of Alexander the Great.
		Born in Pella, the capital of Macedonian, Hephaestion was educated at the court of King Philip and became a childhood friend of Alexander.
		Hephaestion accompanied Alexander the Great on many of his victorious battles, however, it is probable that Hephaestion was a better strategist and diplomat than commander.
	www.alexander-the-great.co.uk /hephaestion.htm (194 words)

	Shoto Press \| Titles \| The Golden Vine \| History vs. alternate history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Hephaestion and Alexander become friends as boys (Hephaestion is presumed to have grown up in Macedon, but little information exists about his background).
		Hephaestion, who grew up in Athens as a servant, emigrates with his father to their ancestral homeland in Macedon.
		Hephaestion is crowned Great King of Persia by Alexander, who returns to Macedon to plan out his campaign to conquer the rest of Asia.
	www.shotopress.com /titles/golden_vine/alternate_history.html (869 words)

	Hephaestion - TheBestLinks.com - Achilles, Aristotle, Afghanistan, Alexander the Great, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Passing through the city of Troy, Alexander and Hephaestion honoured the sacred tombs of the hero Achilles and his close friend Patroclus, assuming in the view of the whole army, the nature of the relation they shared.
		One of the best-known episodes of Hephaestion's life takes place when they both met Stateira and Sysigambis, Darius's pregnant wife and mother.
		Before the India invasion and the crossing of the Hindu Kush mountains, in modern Afghanistan, Alexander made Hephaestion a chiliarch and vizier, recognizing him as second in command.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Hephaestion.html (539 words)

	Hephaestion
		The philosopher is known to have dedicated a volume of letters to him, so they must have met.
		One of the best-known episodes of Hephaestion's life takes place when they both met Stateira and Sysigambis, respectively Darius's pregnant wife and mother.
		Looking at the two men, the queen mother paid her respects first to Hephaestion, who was the taller and by Persian standards more impressive of the two.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/Hephaestion.html (625 words)

	Missing In Action (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Hephaestion glared at Alexander for one long moment and all the other boys were amazed that Alexander actually surrendered the staring contest.
		Hephaestion was important officer and a noble of the court, the search for him was of importance more than just because Alexander favored him.
		Hephaestion was lying on the ground, grinning hugely at him, blood seeping from two wounds, one in the arm and one, from the looks of things, in the side.
	www.midnightryder.com /wolfiesden/bagoasmissinginaction.html (5095 words)

	Writers' Representatives, LLC: Alexander the Gay? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Taller than Alexander and said to be handsome, through Alexander's favor Hephaestion advanced to the highest positions of command in the empire, despite what many considered to be a quarrelsome nature.
		Nevertheless, Hephaestion was known as the "the dearest" of Alexander's friends.
		Whatever their relationship, after his victory at the battle of the Issos (in southern Turkey) in 333, Alexander took a beautiful Persian widow named Barsine as his mistress, by whom he had a son named Herakles, which indicates that Alexander's feelings toward Barsine were not completely Platonic.
	www.writersreps.com /feature.cfm?FeatureID=16 (993 words)

	Michael in the Library
		Hephaestion was the only name the youth had ever borne, Greek the language of his upbringing.
		Hephaestion might have found a new master by virtue of his knowledge of the classics, his command of rhetoric and prosody, or his beauty, but he was sold only for his strong arm and fl skin.
		If Hephaestion's father had had the selling of him, he would have gone to a patrician's or a scholar's household, not a poor scribe's; if his father had freed him, whether or not also legitimating him, Hephaestion might have become a scholar himself.
	www.blithe.com /bhq2.2/michael.html (5591 words)

	A Lion's Share (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		notes the tension between Hephaestion and Bagoas, their silent pleas, vying to be the most beloved, even though no words are spoken.
		There is apprehension in Hephaestion’s gaze as he studies Bagoas.
		He watches, awed by the boy, as Bagoas takes Alexander into his mouth; leans in to swallow the keening cry welling in Alexander’s throat with his mouth and grabbing hold of the scrabbling fingers.
	www21.brinkster.com /fracturedprose/lionsshare.html (773 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Alexander the Great
		So close did Alexander feel to Hephaestion that when the captured women of the Persian King's household mistakenly threw themselves at Hephaestion's feet rather than at his own, he found no offense in this and excused them by saying that his friend was another Alexander.
		Finally, his grief at the death of Hephaestion, one year before his own, was also--in its intensity and public display--to parallel that of the Homeric lovers.
		Apart from Hephaestion, we know of one other love of Alexander's, the young and beautiful Bagoas (the name he is known by is Persian for "eunuch").
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/alexander_great.html (861 words)

	Morning Mist
		Hephaestion skillfully removes Alexander's thin cloak and tunic, and Alexander kicks his sandals onto the floor.
		Hephaestion, after slipping out of his sandals, climbs upon the bed and straddles Alexander's waist, surveying the glorious man lying beneath him.
		Hephaestion draws away and burns kisses down Alexander's chest, then moves to a nipple and nips it gently before doing the same to the other.
	lmnit.kurayami.org /historic/morningmist.html (747 words)

	His Lover's Wife (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Alexander studied Hephaestion's features closely but was disturbed to find that he could read nothing in the blank expression upon the face he knew so well.
		Hephaestion had lovers other than her, one a king, and Hephaestion was usually fair in his outlook on people.
		Hephaestion reached up and pulled Alexander's head down, their lips brushing briefly once, twice, before he released his hold on the golden curls that topped Alexander's head.
	www.midnightryder.com /wolfiesden/bagoasloverswife.html (2807 words)

	LETTERS From CAMP Rehoboth - May 30, 2003 - Past Out
		Alexander was born in 356 B.C. in Macedonia, the son of King Philip II and Princess Olympias.
		But Alexander and Hephaestion, near equals in age, were unusual in that they maintained their relationship throughout their adult live.
		The summer after Hephaestion’s death, Alexander became ill and died in Babylon in June 323 B.C. While early historians suspected that the king had been poisoned, most today believe he died of malaria, or perhaps typhoid fever.
	www.camprehoboth.com /issue05_30_03/pastout.htm (736 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Eumenes by Plutarch
		For Alexander's first mistress in Asia, by whom he had his son Hercules, was Barsine the daughter of Artabazus; and in the distribution of the Persian ladies amongst his captains, Alexander gave Apame, one of his sisters, to Ptolemy, and another, also called Barsine, to Eumenes.
		But Hephaestion dying soon after, the king, in his grief, presuming all those that differed with Hephaestion in his lifetime were now rejoicing at his death, showed much harshness and severity in his behaviour with them, especially towards Eumenes, whom he often upbraided with his quarrels and ill language to Hephaestion.
		But he, being a wise and dexterous courtier, made advantage of what had done him prejudice, and struck in with the king's passion for glorifying his friend's memory, suggesting various plans to do him honour, and contributing largely and readily towards erecting his monument.
	classics.mit.edu /Plutarch/eumenes.html (3775 words)

	I Guess It's All Right 4 -- Hephaestion
		Moreover, when he saw that among his chiefest friends, Hephaestion approved his course and joined him in changing his mode of life, while Craterus clung fast to his native ways, he employed the former in his business with the Barbarians, the latter in that with the Greeks and Macedonians.
		And in general, he showed most affection for Hephaestion, but most esteem for Craterus, thinking, and constantly saying, that Hephaestion was a friend of Alexander, but Craterus a friend of the king.
		As with Hephaestion, the kind of commander he actually was has proven less important than how his relationship to the king has colored historical perceptions of him -- to the negative.
	www.themedicinewheel.net /comic/guessitsallright4.html (3890 words)

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