Hephaestion Amyntoros

[kizzikat]

Dear Jun,

I have finally finished this first part of the essay I promised you, and I’m sorry it took so long!  It started off being an essay on the early years of Hephaestion, but we know little for certain about Hephaestion’s early life other than the following:

• He lived in Pella and his father was called Amyntor
• He was educated with Alexander
• He

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Olympic Games

[anonymous]

The games were not held in 341 BCE, but in 340 (Summer - August?). Both youths would have been 16 years old.