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Unli wings after tupad😋

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How to have children together without being able to have children together: Alexandros x Hephaistion edition.

“Alexander, says Arrian, "...wanted to become the uncle of Hephaestion's children...", and it is therefore even possible to imagine that the two hoped their respective descendants might one day be united, and that, in the end, the crowns of Macedonia and Persia might be worn by a descendant of them both.”

Arrian 7.4.29

This effin’ hurts and I never thought about it:

The Italian art historian Linda De Santis has also pointed out that, besides the Iliad, Alexander found a second ideal source of inspiration in Euripides' Alcestis. There, the widower Admetus finds himself in a state of grief similar to that of the Macedonian king, and Alexander's actions mirror and retrace those of the king of Pherae (the cutting of the horses' manes, the prohibition of musical performances, and other mourning rites). Alexander almost seems to be "pointing us toward the words that flowed from the pen of his favorite tragedian in order to speak to us, across the centuries, about the depth of the feelings he had for his departed friend. In a sense, he is asserting that his relationship with Hephaestion was just as close as that of Admetus and Alcestis."

everybody say thank you riki @outsiddaline