#hephaestion

[itkitay]

Hephaestion and Alexander

[marysmirages]

The spirit of ancient battles (2026)

A pastel version of the 2015 work of the same name.

[nutmeg-on-a-stick]

Some of the new art I'd redone for Neath The Grove is a Heart. Alas, i am a bitter perfectionist. Still not totally happy with my writing but hey!! we'll get there once day!! Chapter 10:

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[anamnesus]

Yappers

Alexander conquered Persia as Achilles’ heir. And by his side was Hephaestion, his Patroclus, who understood the full shape of his soul. Together they were unstoppable. Was that the battle with the horse? No— Henry, you’re missing the point. They’re like us. What? Me as Alexander and you as Hephaestion? HA! If we are assigning roles with any fairness, I would be Alexander. If you say so… Who was Achilles? Oh, my dear country yokel… So, Achilles was a fearsome warrior. His mother was a nymph who dipped him in the River Styx when he was born...

[starweaverblog]

Alexander the Great ✨ and his people

[isabellaofparma]

Besides, you'll be by my side, right? Till the bitter end.

Alexander the Great and Hephaestion in Alexander: The Making of a God (2024)

[ghostlynocturnalspirit]

thinking about alexander and his beloved hephaestion again. him reading the illiad by homer and seeing himself and his friend in the great demi-god and hero; him standing with his lover over achilles' and patroclus' grave. him giving hephaestion the position of chiliarch, meaning he was second in rank only to alexander himself. him saying to his enemy's wife that she has made no error in prostrating before hephaestion because he is alexander himself. him chasing glory and flying too close to the sun, like icarus had done, losing his one true love. his grief being so deep that he cut off his hair like achilles once did for his patroclus; forbidding music and ordering mourning throughout the entire state; worshipping hephaestion like a god. him not soon after succumbing to death's sweet embrace and there becoming a youth once again, meeting his dearest friend in the afterlife with a smile.

[hephaestn]

ALEXANDER (2004, dir. Oliver Stone)