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	Hephaistion quiz -- free game
		No Hephaistion was, by some accounts, a hot-tempered and abrasive man. While on campaign in India, he came to blows with one of his rivals, a general who later became the co-regent for Alexander's son after the conqueror's death.
		Hephaistion, along with Perdikkas, was given charge of the majority of the army with instructions to reach and bridge the Indus River.
		Hephaistion consulted with relevant Sidonites, and appointed a man named Abdalonymus, a descendant of the former kings of Sidon.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=182149 (483 words)

	Shoulders of a King
		Hephaistion rushed into the chamber and was brought to an immediately halt when he beheld Alexander.
		Hephaistion had seen the movement and thrown himself at the half-dead soldier and turned what could have been a very serious wound into a long, but very shallow gash that curled around the back of Alexander's calf.
		Hephaistion had always thought that he would have more time at Alexander's side, but from the moment he had lifted Alexander's arm and placed Phillip's crown upon his head their time was limited.
	www.angelfire.com /folk/defensivewalls/shouldersofaking.html (1336 words)

	Hephaistion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Hephaistion heiratete in der Massenhochzeit zu Susa 324 v.
		Der Arzt Hephaistions, Glaukos, wurde zur Strafe gekreuzigt.
		Die Leiche Hephaistions wurde einbalsamiert und nach Babylon überführt, um dort öffentlich verbrannt und bestattet zu werden.
	www.biologie.de /biowiki/Hephaistion (644 words)

	Alexander 5: "The Kids are Alright"
		Legend says that later in their lives, when Alexander was firmly established as a glorious conqueror, his army overtook the caravan of the mother of King Darius III of Persia.
		When Alexander and Hephaistion visited Darius’ mother, she mistakenly made obeisance to the taller and more physically impressive of the two: Hephaistion.
		Hephaistion died first, leaving Alexander to mourn his loss for days, only to return to battle again to conquer his foes.
	ablemedia.com /ctcweb/consortium/alexander5.html (305 words)

	Like a Man and He Too is Alexander
		Hephaistion, rather taken aback by the suddenness of it, had asked what the problem was.
		Hephaistion could tell that the boy had been surprised, that Hephaistion would kiss him and at the intensity of the kisses themselves.
		Hephaistion was tempted to tell the boy that Alexander liked anything so long as it was Hephaistion that was doing it to him, but he didn't.
	www.bobdidit.org /write/likeaman.htm (2264 words)

	Consequences, Part 3
		Hephaistion wandered around as if he were sleep walking; he'd wanted to go chasing off after Alexander even though he didn't know where to look, but Ptolemy had held him up until Aristotle forbade it.
		Hephaistion was growing sick with worry when Alexander returned, striding into the hall as energetically as ever, but without once glancing towards Hephaistion.
		Hephaistion kissed Alexander back with more passion, wrapping his arms around the shorter boy, trying to ignore that quiet voice in his head that said something was wrong here.
	www.bobdidit.org /write/consequences3.htm (3602 words)

	Hephaistion - Philalexandros (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Hephaistion, was the son of Macedonian aristocrat Amyntas, and he was the dearest Alexander's friend ever since from his childhood, and for Roman historian Q. Curtius Rufus he is described as: omnium amicorum carissimus.
		Hephaistion was vice-king (Chiliarch), and he has married the sister of Barsine - Alexander's own wife at the royal wedding in Susa.
		His image has remained documented in the marble relief with engraved text to the hero Hephaistion, and it is situated now in the Museum of The Saloniki.
	1stmuse.com /frames/hephaeistion.html (326 words)

	Alan Fildes, Articles, Alexander the Great, Victory at Issus 333bc
		Alexander's trusted general Craterus likewise hated Hephaistion, but the two agreed to work together for the sake of their king, since "They were the two men he loved best in all the world" (Plutarch).
		Hephaistion himself was married to Darius' second daughter Drypetis because, Arrian says, Alexander wanted Hephaistion's children to be his nephews and nieces.
		The sources also refer to Alexander's other relationships with women who, like his wives, were all Persian except for his Greek mistress Campaspe, whom he actually relinquished to his painter Apelles after the artist fell in love with her whilst painting her for the king.
	www.alanfildes.com /intimatecompanions.php (1349 words)

	Bliss
		Hephaistion took a large drink of wine before he started to laugh.
		Hephaistion noticed Dino had fallen asleep on the chair in the corner where he was sitting.
		Hephaistion realized there was no reason why he should not take up the boy’s offer.
	hephaestionofmacedon.tripod.com /historical/bliss.htm (4988 words)

	wallkink: Jumble
		Hephaistion watched him carefully, worrying his lower lip between his teeth.
		Hephaistion released the breath he hadn’t known he’d been holding in a soft sigh.
		Alexander pressed their foreheads together, and Hephaistion allowed his arms to curl tighter around him as they curled closer, drifting off into slumber.
	community.livejournal.com /wallkink/5186.html (747 words)

	baranduinfics: Fic: There Is Truth in Wine, 1/1
		Hephaistion shrugged and put his cup down again though to his surprise he found he was a little clumsy and the cup rocked back and forth, threatening to fall over until he steadied it.
		Hephaistion and Bagoas were seated at Alexander’s writing table, their heads bent over a book and Bagoas reading aloud in a halting voice.
		Alexander nodded at Hephaistion, but when Bagoas reached him and started to undo the brooches that held his cloak, he said, “Not yet.” Bagoas, perplexed, started to back away but was stopped by Alexander’s arm wrapping around his waist and pulling him close.
	community.livejournal.com /baranduinfics/18459.html (2214 words)

	pothos.org - All about Alexander the Great (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Hephaistion, not any of Alexander's three wives, was the king's real "significant other".
		Finally, Hephaistion's death and Alexander's grief is, itself, an indication of Hephaistion's significance to the conqueror.
		If Alexander is understood to be mourning a spouse (or spouse-equivalent), the severe nature of his mourning is far more comprehensible --- and proves, in fact, not to be abnormal or pathological at all, contrary to much ancient and modern opinion.
	www.pothos.org /alexander.asp?paraID=42 (2125 words)

	SCREEN IT! PARENTAL REVIEW: ALEXANDER
		Hephaistion kisses Alexander, while a man carries a woman over his shoulder and pats her clothed butt.
		Hephaistion massages Alexander's shoulders in a somewhat sensual manner.
		Roxane is jealous of Alexander's fondness for Hephaistion, prompting Alexander to tell her that there are many different ways to love.
	www.screenit.com /movies/2004/alexander.html (3641 words)

	Hephaistion
		Der Artikel Hephaistion gehört zur Kategorie: Mann, Grieche, Makedone, Militärperson (Makedonien), Antike, Geboren 356 v.
		Der Arzt Hephaistions, Glaukos oder auch Glaukias, wurde zur Strafe gekreuzigt.
		In Ekbatana (heute Hamadan, Iran) ließ er einen steinernen Löwen als Denkmal für Hephaistion aufstellen.
	www.kalkriese.de /Hephaistion.html (717 words)

	Analyzing âAlexanderâ - Film offers a nuanced portrait of a complex king
		Alexander’s mother often said she was descended from the Greek hero Achilles and was an expert snake-handler and priestess who convinced her son that his real father was the god Zeus.
		It is commonly regarded as fact that Alexander and Hephaistion had a romantic and sexual relationship, something that wasn’t uncommon among two men at the time.
		One noteworthy facet of Alexander and Hephaistion’s relationship is that they were of similar age and social standing, though Alexander was the king.
	www.washblade.com /2004/11-26/arts/feature/alexander.cfm (1898 words)

	A FromTheBalcony Review: Alexander (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Here, Hephaistion is no sex magnet or threat, just a cute young man with stringy hair and bad eye makeup.
		Hephaistion’s sudden and unexplained death left many historians to consider he was poisoned.
		Hephaistion’s wretched physician was crucified.” Alexander wanted Hephaistion lawfully worshipped as a god.
	www.fromthebalcony.com /reviews/2004/04_alexander.htm (1293 words)

	Achilles and Patroclus - Alexander and Hephaistion fanlisting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Achilles and Patroclus - Alexander and Hephaistion fanlisting
		Welcome to Achilles and Patroclus, the fanlisting for the relationship between Alexander and Hephaistion from the Oliver Stone's 2004 movie Alexander, approved by the the Fanlistings Network.
		If you are a fan of their relationship, feel free to take a look around and then join.
	www.power-of-three.org /fan/alexphai (123 words)

	Memorable Quotes from Alexander (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Hephaistion: The man who sold it to me said it came from a time when man worshipped sun and stars.
		Hephaistion: You're everything I care for and by the sweet breath of Aphrodite I'm so jealous of losing you to this world you want so badly.
		Hephaistion: The generals question your obsession with Darius...
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0346491/quotes (1755 words)

	Victoria Alexander - Alexander
		Hephaistion’s wretched physician was crucified.” Alexander wanted Hephaistion lawfully worshipped as a god.
		I suspect that he intended to leave Hephaistion in charge in Asia, but there is absolutely no way he could have adopted Hephaistion and made him his legal heir.
		Furthermore, the difference in whether Hephaistion was worshiped as a hero or as a god owe to problems in the sources.
	www.theflickchicks.com /victoria_alexander_-_alexander.htm (4024 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Alexander the Actual (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		(One ancient wag suggested that Alexander was never defeated, "except by Hephaistion's thighs.") Alexander's contemporaries appear to have remarked upon his excessive mourning and elaborate funeral arrangements for dear, recently dead (probably from typhoid) Hephaistion.
		Alexander is said to have mooned around the palace for weeks, cut off his hair and hair from the manes and tails of his horses, and declared that Hephaistion would be worshiped as a divine hero.
		Where Alexander may have differed was that his affair with Hephaistion was lifelong and between men of roughly the same age.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A3067-2004Nov21?language=printer (1851 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes: The Vine: Scribbles From Purgatory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		There is no detailed backround about their friendship, like how and why Hephaistion became Alexander's Patroclus, what made them become so close etc. Still, the first time we see them as kids, Alexander, Hephaistion and his future generals wrestle.
		This implies both that Hephaistion is a tough and proud one and that those two always saw and treated each other as equals.
		Also that Hephaistion sees his friend who's the prince of Macedon, as a person: the confused and insecure teen Alexander tells to his mother "Hephaistion loves me as I am".
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/journal_view.php?journalid=118101&view=public (5108 words)

	CSMG merges with Z-IT and Hephaistion into ATS
		There will be no impact as the business of CSMG, Z-IT and Hephaistion will be operationally absorbed into ATS and the transformation will be the same for our customers.
		However, the interaction with our customers and delivery of the ATS services/products to our customers will be based on merit and extensive experience as previously provided by CSMG, Z-IT and Hephaistion independently.
		This positions ATS as a good partner for all who have to deliver value and in some cases have to comply with BEE rulings.
	www.itweb.co.za /office/ats/0308110725.htm (227 words)

	New York Blade Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Growing up, he was tutored by the famous philosopher Aristotle along with other young nobles, including Hephaistion (Jared Leto), who became his life-long lover.
		In 338 B.C. Alexander lead the cavalry for his father’s army at the successful Battle of Chaeronea, where the Macedonians defeated the Athenian army and the “Band of Thebes,” a force of 150 pairs of committed male lovers.
		Unlike most homosexual relationships in ancient Greece, Alexander and Hephaistion were equals — of similar age and social standing.
	www.newyorkblade.com /print.cfm?content_id=2243 (1048 words)

	Alexander: Director's Cut (2004): Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, Anthony Hopkins - PopMatters Film Review
		Alexander's lifelong devotion to his boyhood friend Hephaistion (Jared Leto) was neither named (as in, declaring a political position) nor unusual.
		According to narrator Ptolemy (Anthony Hopkins), "It was said later that Alexander was never defeated, except by Hephaistion's thighs." While the movie doesn't show male-on-male sexual action, it does offer much sublimated imagery (battling, wrestling) and a graphic sex scene between the son-desiring Alexander and his "barbarian" wife Roxane (Rosario Dawson).
		Stone suggests that Alexander is actually "trisexual," as he not only loved men and women, but also "transgender" eunuchs, and more entertainingly, when soulmate Hephaistion arrives on Alexander's wedding night to deliver a ring, Stone laughs out loud on the commentary track.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/a/alexander-directors-cut.shtml (1631 words)

	pothos.org - Hephaestion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Within these ancient societies where homoerotic desire was freely, sometimes emphatically, expressed, intense friendships might well develop a sexual expression even while that expression was not the focus of the friendship.
		Perhaps in the end, Alexander's own name for Hephaistion is best: Philalexandros.
		And so he has been known down through history: dearest of all the friends of the great Alexander.
	www.pothos.org /alexander.asp?paraID=9&keyword_id=9&title=Hephaestion (330 words)

	Forever Fandom :: Unlock your inner muse
		Summary: In an effort to secure Hephaistion's safety, Alexander thought of sharing him with his closest companions, making his love his men's lover and obsession.
		Summary: Hephaistion is a Greek prince given by his father as the bonded of Alexander, the King of Asia.
		The problem is: Hephaistion is the most stubborn prince of all of Greece and is determined to make Alexander miserable.
	www.foreverfandom.net /viewuser.php?uid=140 (1507 words)

	pw: philadelphia weekly online
		A master at generating publicity, Stone's gotten lots of press in the last few weeks for saying he toned down the movie's gayness for the DVD release-and lots of obedient protests from groups like GLAAD.
		Here's another line that's still there: "It is said that Alexander was never defeated, except by Hephaistion's thighs." That's from the narrator, after a long scene of young boys wrestling in golden light, one of whom already sports Alexander's distinctive peroxide-with-fl-roots hairstyle.
		By his own admission, Stone has now spent almost 10 months editing this movie, for both the first release and this one, which swaps 20 minutes of deleted footage for 12 minutes of added footage.
	www.philadelphiaweekly.com /view.php?id=10124 (1113 words)

	Eumenes of Cardia Part 1/2
		Alexander didn't take any of it, just wrote to his generals and governors asking them for new copies of the burnt documents.
		Eumenes did not get on with Hephaistion, Alexander's closest friend and second in command, but this does not seem to have affected Eumenes' relationship with Alexander.
		Despite, or perhaps because of, this lack of cordiality between them, Eumenes was one of the most extravagant in his mourning for Hephaistion after his death (324), and this increased Alexander's regard for him.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/ancient_biographies/109462 (434 words)

	‘Alexander’ the queer? - Film offers nuanced portrait of historic warrior
		Alexander “was defeated only once, and that was by Hephaistion’s thighs,” a quote that is attributed in the movie to Ptolemy (Anthony Hopkins), Alexander’s friend and biographer.
		There were few known exclusively homosexual men and no labels existed for sexual orientation of any kind.
		But Alexander and Hephaistion went against that norm a bit because they were of similar age and social background.
	www.southernvoice.com /2004/11-26/arts/feature/alexander.cfm (1415 words)

	Houstonvoice.com
		BOTH ANCIENT HISTORIANS and Oliver Stone’s modern adaptation tend to agree that Alexander had sex with both men and women.
		“Obviously what Hephaistion and Alexander had was completely different from that,” Lund says.
		Alexander is also seen kissing Bagoas, the eunuch, and there’s another ambiguous scene were it is implied that the two men go to bed together.
	www.houstonvoice.com /2004/11-26/arts/feature/alexandar.cfm (1706 words)

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