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[...] none of Alexander's extant biographers, Greek or Roman, ever refers to Hephaestion as anything but Alexander's 'friend' (Greek philos, Latin amicus), conforming to Alexander's own epithet for him, philalexandros
Διογένης Ἡφαιστίωνι ἥρωι (Diogénēs Hephaistíoni hḗroi)
Διογένης Ἡφαιστίωνι ἥρωι (Diogénēs Hephaistíoni hḗroi)
Then Hephaestion was cremated and the ashes were taken to Babylon. There, an enormous funerary monument was to be built of brick and decorated with five friezes. It would stand over 200 feet high and cost 10,000 talents. Alexander himself would supervise its building when he got back to Babylon. In the aftermath of the king’s death, it was abandoned.