Original sentence: She also rejects Curtius' claim that a Great King having a male lover was an innovation, noting that Bagoas had been a concubine of Darius III before he was the beloved of Alexander.The historian Quintus Curtius Rufus, who wrote a biography of Alexander in the 1st or 2nd Century CE, says that it was Bagoas' pleas that saved Nabarzanes from being killed by Alexander as a regicide.Their relationship seems to have been well-known and approved among Alexander's troops, as Plutarch recounts an episode (also mentioned by Dicaearchus) during some festivities on the way back from India in which his men clamor for him to openly kiss the young man, who had just won a song and dance contest: "Bagoas...sat down close by him, which so pleased the Macedonians, that they made loud acclamations for him to kiss Bagoas, and never stopped clapping their hands and shouting till Alexander put his arms round him and kissed him.When Darius was murdered by his generals during Alexander's invasion of Persia in 330 BCE, one of the conspirators, Nabarzanes, gave Bagoas to Alexander as a gift
Edited sentence: After all, Bagoas had been a concubine of Darius III before he was the beloved of Alexander.She also rejects Curtius' claim that a Great King having a male lover was an innovation.The historian Quintus Curtius Rufus, who wrote a biography of Alexander in the 1st or 2nd Century AD, says that it was Bagoas' pleas that saved Nabarzanes from being killed by Alexander as a regicide.Their relationship seems to have been well-known and approved among Alexander's troops, as Plutarch recounts an episode (also mentioned by Dicaearchus) during some festivities on the way back from India in which his men clamor for him to openly kiss the young man, who had just won a song and dance contest: "Bagoas [...] sat down close by him, which so pleased the Macedonians, that they made loud acclamations for him to kiss Bagoas, and never stopped clapping their hands and shouting till Alexander put his arms round him and kissed him.When Darius was murdered by his generals during Alexander's invasion of Persia in 330 BC, one of the conspirators, Nabarzanes, gave Bagoas to Alexander as a gift