10 Facts About Hephaistion

Hephaistion petitioned the oracle at Siwa to grant Hephaestion divine status and thus Hephaestion was honoured as a Divine Hero.

Hephaistion's name is not mentioned in lists of high-ranking officers during the early battles of Alexander's Danube campaign or the invasion of Persia.

Hephaistion led his section north into the Swat Valley, while Hephaestion and Perdiccas took a sizeable contingent through the Khyber Pass.

Hephaistion reached the Indus with the land behind him conquered, including the successful siege of Peuceolatis, which took thirty days, and proceeded to organize the construction of boats for the crossing.

Hephaistion was to take part in no further fighting; he had only months to live.

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Hephaistion encircled the tomb of Achilles with a garland and Hephaestion did the same with the tomb of Patroclus, and they ran a race, naked, to honour their dead heroes.

Hephaistion did not arrive in time; by the time he got there, Hephaestion was dead.

Hephaistion's meal seems to have caused a relapse that led to his rapid death.

Hephaistion saw to it that shrines were erected to Hephaestion's memory, and evidence that the cult took hold can be found in a simple votary plaque now in Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, inscribed, "To the Hero Hephaestion".

Hephaistion employed Stasicrates, "as this artist was famous for his innovations, which combined an exceptional degree of magnificence, audacity and ostentation", to design the pyre for Hephaestion.