Alexias and Chris, you may find the following articles on Hephaestion’s funeral pyre interesting. Due to copyright considerations, I am mostly providing the references, unless the articles are found on the net.
Angeliki Kottaridi -
https://www.academia.edu/5870380/Macedo ... _the_Great. (She has a section on Hephaestion’s funeral and how Alexander mimicked Achilles’ mourning for Patroclus, and followed “traditional funerary customs.”)
Ciordia, J. M. (2020). The Ship in the Cave: The Greek and Nautical Origin of Buddhist Architecture. Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 19(1), 48-69. (
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10 ... 19.1697698.) This article also has a wonderful section on the pyre.
Buchanan, S. (2010). Visualization of Classical Architecture from Literature: Cultural Motifs and the Case of Alexander's Monument. International Journal of the Humanities, 8(5).
Palagia, Olga, '6 Hephaestion’s Pyre and the Royal Hunt of Alexander', in A. B. Bosworth, and E. J. Baynham (eds), Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction (Oxford, 2000; online edn, Oxford Academic, 1 Jan. 2010) - (
https://www.academia.edu/843515/Hephaes ... _Alexander)
A debate between scholars about Hephaestion’s pyre.
McKechnie, P. (1995). Diodorus Siculus and Hephaestion's Pyre1. The Classical Quarterly, 45(2), 418-432.
Hammond, N. G. L. (1995). The Death and the Obsequies of Hephaestion. LCM, 20.3-4, 36-41.
McKechnie, P. (2001). Harmonizing the Alexander-Gospels: a Reply to NGL Hammond. L'Antiquité classique, 70, 161-168. (
https://www.persee.fr/doc/antiq_0770-28 ... _70_1_2463)
Jona Lendering on the Lion of Hamadan -
https://www.livius.org/articles/place/e ... cbatana-2/
Enjoy!