Alexander the great gay lovers

By the age of age of 18, he brought down the greatest empire the world has ever seen. Conquered most of the known world by the age of While never losing a battle. As a child Alexander had a passion for philosophy. He attended lectures at Mieza, tutor by Aristotle.

While there he would meet Hephaestion. Alexander would describe his relationship with Hephaestion, to that of Achilles and Patroclus. Who are said to be lovers by Plato and Aeschylus. In BC, Hephaestion contracted typhoid. Hearing the news Alexander rushed to be at his side but by the time he arrived, Hephaestion passed away.

Alexander did accomplish some notable things by age eighteen, such as defeat the Maedi and found Alexandropolis as the regent of Macedonia while his father was campaigning against Byzantium Plutarch, Alexander 9and break the line of the Theban Sacred Band at the Battle of Chaeronea Plutarch, Alexander 9both in BCE i.

So I did some digging, and the closest thing I could find is as follows:. Also, only one of the Plutarch and Arrian quotes quoted above is correct.

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Below are the full quotes and citations. So the Plutarch one seems to be a weird mix of Plutarch and Arrian? What Plutarch actually says is:. The closest I could get was a quotation in a book, in which the following wording is given:. Sign up Log in. Okay since this has come up on my dash, I feel like I should correct a few things.

The line is often attributed to Diogenes of Sinope, but this is uncertain.