Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Our sources actually contain rather different stories of Hephaistion’s death. These are sometimes mistakenly conflated when they really shouldn’t be, as letting them stand alone tells its OWN tale about what our sources (especially Plutarch) want us to believe about Hephaistion.

Sources mentioned:
Arrian’s Anabasis, 7.14.1 forward
Diodorus 17.110.8
Plutarch Alexander 72.1 forward
Curtius Rufus and Justin also mentioned in passing.

(Cover image: pair of heads in the Getty Museum, Hephaistion [maybe] on the right. I have a separate video about these heads: youtu.be/NZoz_LZ3Cl8)

The other video referred to several times, the death of Krateros, can be found here:
youtu.be/KwPxwU9x6nU