And in Greek this abbrevation would be just a "Fe" ,"e" as in Santa Fe.Well Fe doesnt work not even as an abbrevation.Hephaistion in Greek and ancient Greek is pronounced "Ifestion"."I" like in "if", and "fe" like in "Santa Fe",and the tone, the pronounciation is in "tion" and not in "phai" as it is in English.
I agree, a possible abbrevation could have been "tion".Also, dont forget that the extension of the name changes in Greek." O Hephaistion= Hephaistion (he). "Tou Hephaistionos"= of Hephaistion".If you would say "the wine of Hephaistion", in Greek it would be "to krasi tou Hephaistionos".So using just the abbrevation would be " tou tionos"= of tion (or tion's).So the abbrevation would change accordingly to what you would say.For Alexander it would be: "O Alexandros"= Alexander (he), and "tou Alexandrou"= of Alexander (or Alexander's).
But generally some names dont get abbrevations.Unless we use modern slang ,like Gi for George.But this is way too modern.Like initials.Next thing would be presenting Hephaistion with sunglasses and sport shoes?Well, actually they used to perform ancient Greek tragedies wearing modern clothes.And i think in Epidaurus (oh these latinized Greek words), they still do some plays like this.So, why not a writer use abbrevations?
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But as i disagree with plays like these, i also disagree with writers using abbrevations like this,and especially when these abbrevations only work in english.