Besides, you'll be by my side, right? Till the bitter end.

Alexander the Great and Hephaestion in Alexander: The Making of a God (2024)

Ptolemy tired of thirdwheeling Alexander and Hephaestion in Episode 1: The Boy King

Alexander: The Making of a God (Netflix, 2024)

why is everyone obsessed over romeo and juliet when the holy trinity of gay tragic lovers exits!? like alexander the great, achilles and apollo didn’t lose hephaestion, patroclus and hyacinthus for everyone to forget about them!! like they’re the same but one is a myth, the other is a book, and the one that was real

The mural of Achilles, and the temple of Amun.

Private commissions, please don't use for yourself.

Spirits of ancient battles. Memories of Alexander the Great (2023/2024)

Gouache version of the work from 2017: https://www.tumblr.com/marysmirages/686070565494259712/spirits-of-ancient-battles-memories-of-alexander?source=share

Interviewer: Are you very fond of Alexander? Gene Roddenberry: As a matter of fact, I am. I have Mary Renault's new Oxford book―in fact, I'd have everything in the bookstores a few years ago. Passionate admirer of Alexander. Passionate man. [...] Interviewer: There's a great deal of writing in the STAR TREK movement now which compares the relationship between Alexander and Hephaistion to the relationship between Kirk and Spock―focusing on the closeness of the friendship, the feeling that they would die for one another― Gene Roddenberry: Yes. There's certainly some of that with―certainly with love overtones. Deep love. The only difference being, the Greek ideal―we never suggested in the series―physical love between the two. But it's the―we certainly had the feeling the affection was sufficient for that, if that were the particular style in the 23rd Century. [He looks thoughtful] That's very interesting. I never thought of that before. [From Shatner: Where No Man (1979)]

Sooo I watched the new docuseries Alexander: The Making of a God and I was hit by indirect Kirk/Spock feelings because I remembered this interview. And of course I had to make a gifset about it. :)

Alexander the Great kissing Hephaestion

Tapestry at Hampton Court Palace, London.

do u guys think that hylas, patroclus, hephaestion and hyacinthus are friends in elysium...

i bet they have a group chat on twitter called "support group for emos who dated murder blondes" where they gossip every day ...

just learned that alexander the great and his bestie hephaestion made an offering to achilles and patroclus

Happy pride y’all

"But the fates of death await us. So we either give our enemy glory…" "Or win it for ourselves."

Alexander the Great and Hephaestion in Alexander: The Making of a God (2024)

Alexander and Hephaestion in Episode 1: The Boy King

Alexander: The Making of a God (Netflix, 2024)

Chibi Alexander and Hephaistion

fellas is it gay to visit the graves of achilles and patroclus with your personal bodyguard/bff who you named second in command to your empire and compare yourself to achilles and him to patroclus and also lose your mind when he dies and die yourself not eight months later

Hephaestion trying to convince Alexander to go back to Macedonia is Patroclus trying to convince Achilles not to go to war.