Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
A thank you video, one year and 1.73K viewers on from when I began this endeavor. Also a reintroduction of who I am (and why I might be worth listening to about Alexander), as well as what this channel is about, for those who didn't want to dig back through to the first video I made.
Website mentioned: jeannereames.net
A thank you video, one year and 1.73K viewers on from when I began this endeavor. Also a reintroduction of who I am (and why I might be worth listening to about Alexander), as well as what this channel is about, for those who didn't want to dig back through to the first video I made.
Website mentioned: jeannereames.net





![Did Hephaistion Drink Himself to Death?
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: https://youtu.be/NZoz_LZ3Cl8)
The other video referred to several times, the death of Krateros, can be found here:
https://youtu.be/KwPxwU9x6nU Did Hephaistion Drink Himself to Death?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SHJWitXDlyI/mqdefault.jpg)




