Hephaestion (Ancient Greek: Ἡφαιστίων Hēphaistíōn; c. 356 BC  –  October 324 BC), son of Amyntor, was an ancient Macedonian nobleman of probable "Attic...

Hephaestion (356 BC–324 BC) was Alexander's celebrated friend and general. Hephaestion or Hephaistion may also refer to: Hephaestion (beetle), a genus...

Achilles, and Hephaestion honoring Patroclus. According to Robin Lane Fox, Alexander and Hephaestion were possible lovers. After Hephaestion's death in Oct...

to the genus Hephaestion: Hephaestion annulatus F. Philippi, 1859 (Argentina and Chile) Hephaestion auratum Cerda, 1968 (Chile) Hephaestion bullocki Cerda...

and Patroclus; Alexander honoring Achilles, and Hephaestion honoring Patroclus. After Hephaestion's death in Oct 324 BC, Alexander mourned him greatly...

friend Hephaestion, Bagoas, and later his wife, Roxana. Hephaestion compares Alexander to Achilles, to which Alexander replies that Hephaestion must be...

Arybbas, Balacrus, Demetrius, Hephaestion. 332 Aristonous, Lysimachus, Peithon, Arybbas, Menes, Demetrius, Hephaestion. 331 Aristonous, Lysimachus, Peithon...

Hephaestion (‹See Tfd›Greek: Ἡφαιστίων Hēphaistíōn; fl. 2nd century AD) was a grammarian of Alexandria who flourished in the age of the Antonines. He...

hand. When Alexander and Hephaestion went together to visit the captured Persian royal family, Sisygambis knelt to Hephaestion to plead for their lives...

identical with the New History in six books ascribed by Photius to Ptolemy Hephaestion, of which a summary outline has been preserved in Photius' Biblioteca...

to Alexander; this included Drypetis, who married Alexander's friend, Hephaestion. At the same ceremony, Alexander married Parysatis, daughter of previous...

his plan for the city of Alexandria, the monumental funeral pyre for Hephaestion and the reconstruction of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, as well as...

Hephaestion, Hephaistion, or Hephaistio of Thebes (Ancient Greek: Ἡφαιστίων ὁ Θηβαῖος, Hēphaistíōn ho Thēbaĩos) was a Hellenized Egyptian astrologer of...

Artaxerxes III. To Hephaestion he gave Drypetis; she too was the daughter of Darius, his own wife's sister, for he wanted Hephaestion's children to be his...

the Persian treasure. There, his closest friend, Hephaestion, died of illness or poisoning. Hephaestion's death devastated Alexander and he ordered the preparation...

and giving him advice about his burial. According to Photius, Ptolemy Hephaestion (probably referring to Ptolemy Chennus) wrote that Patroclus was also...

the father of Hephaestion Amyntoros, who was a close companion and lieutenant to Alexander the Great. The full history of Hephaestion's lineage is unknown...

camp, until a response came from the oracle of Ammon bidding him honour Hephæstion and offer sacrifice to him as to a hero." Parallel Lives, 72. Media related...

Fontenrose 1981, p. 171. Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Book 5 (summary from Photius, Myriobiblon 190). Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Book 2 (summary...

alluding to Hephaistos; meaning the figure depicted could be the general Hephaestion. The dog depicted is possibly Peritas accompanying Alexander. The stag...

was married to Hephaestion, a general in Alexander's army, during the Susa weddings. Soon after, Drypetis was widowed when Hephaestion accompanied Alexander...

nothing is known; a single couplet from the seventh book is preserved in Hephaestion but it is unclear whether this was an entire stanza or part of a three-...

first exhibits his military bravery and leadership, and where he and Hephaestion are hardened to the gruesome realities of war. Athens – Macedon's antagonistic...

the 2nd century AD, in the Handbook of Metrics by the grammarian Hephaestion. Hephaestion also calls the pattern the "Euripideum" ("τὸ καλούμενον Εὐριπίδειον...

there with Leto. Photius, in his Bibliotheca, tells us that in Ptolemy Hephaestion's New History, Hera refuses to lay with Zeus, and hides in a cave to avoid...

connected Demeter with this Styx. According to Photius, a certain Ptolemy Hephaestion (probably referring to Ptolemy Chennus) knew of a story, "concerning...

Fabulae 77. Apollodorus, Library 3.10.9. Pausanias 3.20.9. Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History 4 (as summarized in Photius, Myriobiblon 190). Pindar, Pythian...

escaped from the Laestrygonians. According to the "New History" of Ptolemy Hephaestion (according to Photius) and Eustathius, the plant mentioned by Homer grew...

or the battle in which the Giant aforementioned was killed." Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History 4 "The plant “moly” of which Homer speaks; this plant had...

Rhodius, 2.298 Hyginus, Fabulae 14 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 26.351ff. Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History 6; Photius, Bibliotheca 190 Servius, Commentary on Virgil's...