Hephaestion Amyntoros

Dear Jun,

 

I have finally finished this first part of the essay I promised you, and I’m sorry it took so long!  It started off being an essay on the early years of Hephaestion, but we know little for certain about Hephaestion’s early life other than the following:

 

• He lived in Pella and his father was called Amyntor
• He was educated with Alexander
• He went to the Olympic Games in summer 341 BC with Alexander
• He probably went to Athens with Alexander in 338 BC
• He honoured Patroclus’s tomb at Troy in 334 BC.

 

As I’ve always wanted to write a proper historical novel about Alexander, this therefore ended up being background research.  I hope it doesn’t bore you too much!

 

1.          AGE (1)

 

 

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2.            MIEZA

 

 

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3.         THE PAGES

 

 

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4. THE OLDER PAGES

 

 

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5.         AGE (2)

 

 

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6.            ERASTES/EROMENOS (1)

 

 

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7.            ERASTES/EROMENOS (2)

 

 

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8.            AMYNTAS

 

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9.            ALEXANDER OF EPIRUS

 

 

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10.        THE WOMEN OF ALEXANDER’S FAMILY (1)

 

 

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11.        THE WOMEN OF ALEXANDER’S FAMILY (2)

 

 

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12.        AGES OF ALEXANDER’S ASSOCIATES

 

 

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