• Bagoas (Old Persian: Bagāvahyā; Ancient Greek: Βαγώας, Bagōas; died 336 BCE) was a prominent Persian official who served as the vizier (Chief Minister)...
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    Bagoas (Old Persian: Bagāvahyā; Ancient Greek: Βαγώας, Bagōas) was a eunuch in the court of the Persian Empire in the 4th century BC. Bagoas was a courtier...
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    from Bagoas' influences, tried to have the eunuch poisoned; but did not succeed, instead succumbing to poison himself at the orders of Bagoas. Bagoas put...
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    chiliarch (hazahrapatish) Bagoas, who installed Artaxerxes' youngest son Arses on the throne. He only reigned for a few years, until Bagoas had him poisoned as...
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    relationship between Alexander and Bagoas, saying that Alexander was seized of such desire by the eunuch, that Bagoas became the de facto sovereign of Persia...
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  • is certainly testimony that he kept Bagoas with him at least some of the time. But there is no evidence that Bagoas was as important to, much less as influential...
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  • Look up Bagoas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bagoas (died 336 BC) was a Persian minister of Artaxerxes III. Bagoas, meaning eunuch, may also refer...
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    sons, with the exception of Arses and Bisthanes, were also murdered by Bagoas. Bagoas, acting as kingmaker, put the young Arses (Artaxerxes IV) on the throne...
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    on a skid, with little wheels under the wing tips. Abrial named the A-12 Bagoas, after the Persian Vizier and poisoner. Its first flights were made during...
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  • objects to being controlled by Bagoas and attempts to poison him. Instead, Arses and all his children are killed by Bagoas. Bagoas then seeks to install a new...
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    Bagoas with the assistance of a physician. Artaxerxes III was succeeded by Artaxerxes IV Arses, who before he could act was also poisoned by Bagoas....
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  • objects to being controlled by Bagoas and attempts to poison him. Instead, Arses and all his children are killed by Bagoas. Bagoas then seeks to install a new...
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  • private relationships are these with his childhood friend Hephaestion, Bagoas, and later his wife, Roxana. Hephaestion compares Alexander to Achilles...
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    The Persian general and vizier, the eunuch Bagoas, falls out of favour with King Artaxerxes III. Bagoas seeks to remain in office by replacing Artaxerxes...
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    Bagoas (4th century BCE): prime minister of king Artaxerxes III of Persia, and his assassin (Bagoas is an old Persian word meaning eunuch). Bagoas, 4th...
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    "was quite excessively keen on boys", and that Alexander kissed the eunuch Bagoas in public. This episode is also told by Plutarch, probably based on the...
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    the throne as an adolescent by Bagoas, advisor to the King, after Bagoas had poisoned Artaxerxes III; poisoned by Bagoas when he threatened to punish him...
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  • high priesthood by Bagoas, general of Artaxerxes. Joshua got into a quarrel with Johanan in the temple, and Johanan killed him. Bagoas knew that Johanan...
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  • October 1982) is a Spanish actor and dancer. He was known for playing as Bagoas in the 2004 Oliver Stone film Alexander. His interest in dance began when...
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    was coined for this spread of the Byzantine system in the 19th century. Bagoas Anne Boleyn Alessandro Cagliostro John Dee Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester...
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    Plutarch uses to describe a famous kiss that Alexander the Great gave to Bagoas. The compound verb (κατα-) "has the force of an emphatic, ostentatious salute...
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    centered on a small temple. The "Petition to Bagoas" (Sayce-Cowley collection) is a letter written in 407 BCE to Bagoas, the Persian governor of Judea, appealing...
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  • to: A-12 Shrike, a World War 2–era American attack aircraft Abrial A-12 Bagoas, a French experimental glider of the 1930s Aero A.12, a Czechoslovak light...
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    is Judaized , and circumcised on hearing what Judith has accomplished. Bagoas, or Vagao (Vulgate), the eunuch who had charge over Holofernes' personal...
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    counterattack, the commander of the Armenian unit, Bagoas, was killed. According to Faustus of Byzantium, Bagoas was the only casualty on the Armenian side,...
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  • possibly poisoned by his vizier Bagoas Artaxerxes IV (d. 336 BC), Persian king; poisoned by his vizier Bagoas Bagoas (d. 336 BC), Persian vizier and king-maker;...
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  • entourage, but deliberately ignored Alexander's lover, the Persian eunuch Bagoas. When he was told of Alexander's affection for the eunuch, Orxines replied...
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  • causes and others detailing an assassination plot by a military official, Bagoas, who then elevated Artaxerxes’ youngest son, Arses, to the throne. Arses...
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    Nicostratus of Argos while the Persians were led by Rhossaces, Aristazanes, and Bagoas, the chief of the eunuchs. Nectanebo II resisted with an army of 100,000...
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    second, commanded by turncoat mercenary Mentor of Rhodes and the eunuch Bagoas, was sent against Bubastis. The third division, which comprised the Argives...
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