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ALEXANDER (2004, dir. Oliver Stone)

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Late night visitor

a short comic I drew up last spring

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Alexander and Hephaestion bathe their horses (2024)

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Alexander and his generals!

(at least the ones I actually remember by their name, sorry Cleitus💀)

Edit: Huge thanks to everyone who respectfully explained the topic of skintones in Ancient Macedonia to me, I truly appreciate it 🙏

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Started re-reading The Golden Mean recently since I heard it’s getting a Netflix adaption (huuuhhh?!) some sketches along the way

It’s been 10+ years but... I did always remember enjoying this portrayal of kid Alexander as someone quite off-putting compared to most of his literary counterparts

#alexander the great #hephaestion #hephaistion #ptolemy #aristotle #philip ii of macedon #interesting choice of material for an adaptation. I have Thoughts. but not right now.#been on a historical fiction kick recently. just finished creation by Gore Vidal and it was really really good #longing for the past... so hot right now #the 2010s specifically not 300bc #the golden mean

Hey bro what if we married two sisters but like as a political move, like I marry the oldest princess and you marry her younger sister so we can be officially a family, but I mean we should marry the same day with a lot of other couples but you're my right hand and I'm the king so you and I will stand next to each other and be the most important men there and get married together and have a family together because you know our children will be cousins and I want your babies to be related to me and my babies to be related to you bro, isn't it great that we can have babies together, it's just everything true bros would want, I can't wait for our wedding day, love you bro <3

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Why do you think Alexander and Hephaestion knew each other very early?

Alexander and Hephaistion as Boys

Curtius tells us they did, when he introduces Hephaistion for (apparently) the first time in book three (3.12.15). We get there a little potted summary of Hephaistion and among the things Curtius tells us is that Hephaistion and Alexander were around the same age and had been educated together. Diogenes Laertius (5.27) indirectly backs this up by citing a book (e.g., collection) of letters that Aristotle exchanged with Hephaistion. While he also wrote letters (4 books’ worth!) to Alexander, as well as a book of letters to Antipatros and to Olympias, none of Alexander’s other age-mates got letters from Aristotle. Sure, it’s possible Aristotle wrote Hephaistion because of his close association with the king, who Aristotle was hoping to influence (Demosthenes contacted Hephaistion for, apparently, that very reason). I prefer Occam’s razor: Aristotle wrote Hephaistion as a former student. Yes, also as an advisor of the king, but it carried more weight if Hephaistion had also been at Mieza with Alexander.

So, I do believe they knew each other at least as teens, c. 12/13/14. Keep in mind—as I’ve said elsewhere—the word used by Curtius indicates that Alexander and Hephaistion were what we might call “coevals.” They were not (necessarily) exactly the same age. I’d say ±3 years either way. So Hephaistion might have been slightly older, or slightly younger. In the novels, I made him about 2.5 years older, but that served my own thematic purposes.

Also, while in the novels I had them meet in early teens, it’s also possible that Hephaistion arrived in Pella much earlier. As I argue in my article “Becoming Macedonian,” if his father was indeed the “Amyntor” on a curse tablet from Pydna, then Hephaistion may have been brought to Pella shortly after Philip’s successful retaking of Pydna in 356/57. That’s Alexander’s birth year (356). So, if Hephaistion was either a hostage for his father’s good behavior or was brought to Pella as a reward for Amyntor taking Philip’s side during the conflict, he and Alexander may quite literally have grown up together, from toddler-hood on. (This might also be an argument for Hephaistion being slightly older than Alexander.) Using sons as hostages (or as a reward) was fairly common.

There’s a (quite) late story of the two as boys out sailing, but I dismiss that as later embellishment.

Now, I will say that my colleague, Sabine Müller, does not think they grew up together, or had even met before Alexander was already in Asia. Her reasoning is that stories of their childhood friendship is also part of that later (Roman-era) embellishment because he doesn’t seem to have been active earlier in Alexander’s campaign or mentioned (unlike, say, Perdikkas or Leonnatos). I disagree, as I see enough diverse evidence to suggest "consilience” that points to an earlier connection (at least by Alexander’s time at Mieza), and he wasn’t active earlier because he was young (so not worthy of comment from our sources as he didn’t hold any offices of note).