• Hephaestion, Hephaistion, or Hephaistio of Thebes (Ancient Greek: Ἡφαιστίων ὁ Θηβαῖος, Hēphaistíōn ho Thēbaĩos) was a Hellenized Egyptian astrologer of...
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    Hephaestion (Ancient Greek: Ἡφαιστίων Hephaistíon; c. 356 BC  –  October 324 BC), son of Amyntor, was an ancient Macedonian nobleman of probable "Attic...
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  • racehorse Hephaestion of Thebes, 5th century astrologer Hephaestin, a protein involved in the metabolism and homeostasis of iron Hephaesteion, the Temple of Hephaestus...
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    Achilles, and Hephaestion honoring Patroclus. According to Robin Lane Fox, Alexander and Hephaestion were possible lovers. After Hephaestion's death in Oct...
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  • date) Hephaestion of Thebes, Egyptian astrologer (approximate date) Kālidāsa, Classical Sanskrit writer (approximate date) Olympiodorus of Thebes, historical...
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    Achilles, and Hephaestion honoring Patroclus. According to Robin Lane Fox, Alexander and Hephaestion were possible lovers. After Hephaestion's death in Oct...
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  • date) Hephaestion of Thebes, Egyptian astrologer (approximate date) Kālidāsa, Classical Sanskrit writer (approximate date) Olympiodorus of Thebes, historical...
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  • Henuttawy (princess) Henuttawy (priestess) Henuttawy C Henutwati Hephaestion Hephaestion of Thebes Heptastadion Hepu (vizier) Heqaib Heqaib III Heqanakht Heqanakht...
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  • Alexander (2004 film) (category Cultural depictions of Aristotle)
    Hephaestion compares Alexander to Achilles, to which Alexander replies that Hephaestion must be his Patroclus (Achilles' lover). When Hephaestion mentions...
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  • Fire from Heaven (category Cultural depictions of Alexander the Great)
    restrained loyalty. Hephaestion – Teenaged friend of Alexander who becomes his unswervingly loyal life partner. Pausanias – Bodyguard and lover of Philip, later...
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    the city of Elatea, only a few days' march from both Athens and Thebes. The Athenians, led by Demosthenes, voted to seek alliance with Thebes against Macedonia...
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  • Greek: Ἀρχέβουλος) of Thera (or possibly Thebes, Greece) was a lyric poet who appears to have lived around the year 280 BCE, as Euphorion of Chalcis is said...
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    Cassander (category Regents of Macedonia (ancient kingdom))
    was educated alongside Alexander the Great in a group that included Hephaestion, Ptolemy and Lysimachus. His family were distant collateral relatives...
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    Heracles (redirect from Glory of Hera)
    perseus.org. Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Book 5 "Heracles did not wear the skin of the Nemean lion, but that of a certain Lion, one of the giants killed...
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    predictions and omens of Alexander's own death, the death of Hephaestion, and Alexander's own death (324–323 BC). The very end of this book concludes with...
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    War against Amphissa in 339 BC. Thebes ejected a Macedonian garrison from Nicaea (near Thermopylae), leading Thebes to join Athens, Megara, Corinth,...
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  • adapting the Rise of Alexander segment of Xerxes, but it evolved into having a greater focus on a love story between Alexander and Hephaestion, leading Snyder...
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  • Reign: The Conqueror (category Cultural depictions of Alexander the Great)
    attain 'speed', Alexander heads to the woods with allies Philotas and Hephaestion, where he tames a wild man-eating horse. There he meets and befriends...
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    the golden apples was the brother of the Nemean lion" asserted Ptolemy Hephaestion (recorded in his New History V, lost but epitomized in Photius, Myriobiblion...
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    Aphilon, Patras, Corinth, Thebes, Chalkis, Thessaloniki, and Drama. The largest community in Greece at that time was in Thebes, where he found about 2000...
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    was a memorial dedicated to Alexander's friend Hephaestion. In 2019, a marble statue claimed to be of Alexander was found by Greek archaeologist Calliope...
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    Styx (redirect from River of hate)
    ISBN 978-0-674-99493-5. Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes in Aeschylus: Persians. Seven against Thebes. Suppliants. Prometheus Bound. Edited and translated...
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    Trojan War (redirect from Battle of Troy)
    Metamorphoses 27. Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History 5 (as summarized in Photius, Myriobiblon 190). Pausanias, 1.43.1. History of the Pelloponesian War 1...
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  • Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia (d. 323 BC). Hephaestion, Macedonian general, soldier, aristocrat, and companion of Alexander the Great (d. 324...
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    Poseidon (redirect from God Of The Seas)
    guardian of many Hellenic cities and colonies. In pre-Olympian Bronze Age Greece, Poseidon was venerated as a chief deity at Pylos and Thebes, with the...
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  • Syracuse at the invitation of Dionysius I's brother-in-law Dion. 387 BCE: Under the threat of Spartan intervention, Thebes disbands its league, and Argos...
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  • Archilochian (category Types of verses)
    irregular responsion) and in Cratinus fr. 360 (Kassel-Austin), where, as Hephaestion notes, no caesura is observed before the ithyphallic ending: Χαῖρ᾽, ὦ...
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  • Moly (herb) (category Deeds of Hermes)
    the "New History" of Ptolemy Hephaestion (according to Photius) and Eustathius, the plant mentioned by Homer grew from the blood of the Giant Picolous...
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    623 Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Astakos Scholia on Pindar, Pythian Ode 2.28 Apollodorus, 3.1.2 Antoninus Liberalis, 32 Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History...
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  • Great and founder of the Seleucid dynasty (d. 281 BC) 356 BC July 20/21 – Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia (d. 323 BC). Hephaestion, Macedonian general...
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