The flute player

[i]

HiAny one could tell me anything about that story concerning Hephaistion and a certain Euos [not sure how to spell it], who presumably was his favorite - he was a flute player, i mean, Euos. I never actually read/heard nothing about Hephaistion on these matters --- is there anything more consistent about this in the sources?i

[susan]

Plutarch, Eumenes, says:Notwithstanding, he (Eumenes) frequently incurred Alexander's displeasure, and put himself into some danger, through Hephaestion. The quarters that had been taken up for Eumenes, Hephaestion assigned to Euius, the flute-player. Upon which, in great anger, Eumenes and Mentor came to Alexander and loudly complained, saying that the way to be regarded was to throw away their arms and turn flute-players or tragedians; so much so that Alexander took their part and chid Hephaestion; but soon after changed his mind again, and was angry with Eumenes, and accounted the freedom he had taken to be rather an affront to the king than a reflection upon Hephaestion.
Susan