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The spirit of ancient battles (2026)
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The spirit of ancient battles (2026)
A pastel version of the 2015 work of the same name.
ALEXANDER (2004, dir. Oliver Stone)
Alexander and Hephaistion in their youth, study from A Classical Courtship by Auguste Toulmouche
forgot to upload this to tumblr—a paint-sketch of Hephaistion from Dancing with the Lion by @jeannereames, based on the final scene in Rise! Was such a joy to read these books, so many neat historical details and depth given to the characters 🥰
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 🙏
Hephaistion or Hephaestion?
Given that I have a strong preference for the Greek transliteration (ai), I wondered about the rest of you? Do you have a preference, especially a strong one?
Also, as native language can matter (e.g., Germans use Greek transliterations, Italians use Latin), if English isn't your native language and you typically read about ATG in your own language, add it in tags. And, of course, reblog. :-)
Forgot to add Hefestion. Apologies! Put that in tags!
Which spelling do you prefer
Hephaistion, and it's a strong preference
Hephaistion, but it's not a strong preference
Hephaestion, and it's a strong preference
Hephaestion, and it's not a strong preference
I genuinely don't care (even a little bit)
Just show me the responses
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