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toujours_nigel It is an extremely fun but ultimately futile exercise to glean what Hephaistion thinks of Bagoas from what Bagoas thinks Hephaistion thinks of Bagoas. (It is also very difficult to reconcile Bagoas' image of this dour, towering, inscrutable man with Hephaistion's image of himself in FFH as awkward and violent and earnest; the dialogue we get for Hephaistion in TPB is of course rather more in line with the latter.)
One doesn't, thankfully, need to do this. What Hephaistion thinks of Bagoas is that after a full day's march in the desert, when someone (almost certainly not Alexander) tells him that Bagoas is lost in the desert, he turns back around and finds him and brings him back. On a march where anyone who founders (including women and children) are abandoned without hope of rescue, because nobody has the resources for it.
One doesn't, thankfully, need to do this. What Hephaistion thinks of Bagoas is that after a full day's march in the desert, when someone (almost certainly not Alexander) tells him that Bagoas is lost in the desert, he turns back around and finds him and brings him back. On a march where anyone who founders (including women and children) are abandoned without hope of rescue, because nobody has the resources for it.
