“Hephaestion’s Death: A Moment of Grief for Alexander or a Catalyst for his Quest for Immortality?”

[Sweetmemory41]

Here’s a link to an interesting article that questions the true motive for Alexander’s mourning for Hephaestion - https://www.athensjournals.gr/reviews/2 ... IS-HIS.pdf

[Jeanne Reames]

As an expert on Hephaistion, the person's research is missing a bunch of important material on Hephaistion. It's a bit spotty. (Can't find the author's name on the article.) She/He also seems to have missed a very long article "The Mourning of Alexander" in Syllecta Classica. It's neither a new article nor behind a paywall. It looks like this is a draft, so if it's not actually in *print* yet, the author still has time to do a little more looking into Hephaistion as a figure in his own right...and find that article on Alexander's mourning. (Generally not a good idea to write on a topic and *not* reference other articles *on the same topic*, even if taking a different tact.)