Alexander The Great's Sex Life
The Ancients
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The Death of Alexander the Great
Hephaestion dies before Alexander the Great. The level of grief by Alexander is unprecedented. He constructs this massive funeral pyre for Hephaestion in Ek Batana. So you can say without doubt that they were the closest of friends. And I think it's more than likely that if not for all the time, at least for a part of their time, that they were lovers too.
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