Hephaestion

Hephaestion ( Hephaistíon; s. 356 BC – 324 SM), putra dari Amyntor, adalah seorang bangsawan dan jenderal Makedonia dalam ketentaraan Aleksander Agung. Ia merupakan "... orang tersayang dari antara semua teman raja; ia dibesarkan bersama dengan Aleksander dan mengetahui semua rahasianya ." Pertemanan ini berlangsung sepanjang masa hidup mereka, dan berbanding dengan Achilles dan Patroclus, baik oleh orang lain serta diri mereka sendiri.

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Referensi

Sumber kuno 
 Aelian, Varia Historia
 Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander
 Quintus Curtius Rufus, The History of Alexander
 Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica
 Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers: Aristotle
 Diogenes dari Sinope, Letters
 Homer, Iliad
 Horace, Epistles
 Lucian, Pro Lapsu
 Plutarch, Parallel Lives: Alexander, Eumenes

Sumber modern 
 Cartledge, Paul (2004) Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past. London: Macmillan. 
 Chugg, Andrew Michael (2006) Alexander's Lovers. Lightning Source UK Ltd. 
 Hammond, N. G. L. (1980 2nd edition) Alexander the Great: King, Commander and Statesman. Bristol Press. 
 Hammond, N. G. L. (1997) The Genius of Alexander the Great. London: Duckworth. 
 Heckel, Waldemar (2006) Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great. MA, USA: Blackwell. 
 Lane Fox, Robin (1973) Alexander the Great. London: Allen Lane. 
 Martin, Thomas R. (2012). Alexander the Great: the story of an ancient life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
 Renault, Mary (1975) The Nature of Alexander. London: Allen Lane.

Bacaan tambahan 
 Reames, Jeanne. Hephaistion Amyntoros: Eminence Grise at the Court of Alexander the Great. Diss. The Pennsylvania State University, c1998. (abstract )
 Borza, Eugene and Jeanne Reames. Some New Thoughts on the Death of Alexander the Great, The Ancient World 31.1 (2000) 1-9.
 Bosworth, Albert Brian. Hephaistion. In: Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth (Hrsg.): The Oxford Classical Dictionary. 3. Aufl., Oxford University Press, Oxford 1996, .
 Carney, Elizabeth D. Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Aristocracy. Dissertation, Duke University, 1975.
 Heckel, Waldemar. Hephaistion. In: Ders.: The Marshals of Alexander's Empire. Routledge, London 1992, .
 Reames, Jeanne. An Atypical Affair? Alexander the Great, Hephaistion, and the Nature of Their Relationship. In: The Ancient History Bulletin 13.3 (1999), pp. 81–96.
 Reames, Jeanne. The Cult of Hephaistion. In: Cartledge, Paul, and Greenland, Fiona Rose (ed.), Responses to Oliver Stone's Alexander. Film, History, and Cultural Studies. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 2010,  (accessible online in Scribd.com).
 Reames, Jeanne. The Mourning of Alexander the Great, In: Syllecta Classica 12 (2001) 98-145.

Pranala luar 
 Alexander's Tomb by Andrew M. Chugg
 Hephaestion at WCD  (Wiki Classical Dictionary)
 Hephaistion - Philalexandros by Jeanne Reames
 Livius, Hephaestion  by Jona Lendering
 pothos.org All about Alexander the Great

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