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after hephaistion death

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2002 8:44 pm
by dione
Hi !
What happened to Hephaistions body after he died.I know that Alexander ordered to build him a huge tomb,but after his own death he used it.
Dione

Re: after hephaistion death

Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2002 11:03 am
by agesilaos
Hephaistion was burned on a pyre of supreme extravagance and his ashes deposited in an urn which presumably rested in the tomb: Alexander's embalmed body was stolen and taken to Alexadria by Ptolemy Lagou (Soter) so it never rested in Hephaistion's tomb.