Alexander and Hephaestion, the love of his life | Alexander: The Making of a God | Netflix

Alexander the Great had an incredible life, he conquered almost the entire continent known at the time, but he also had one person: Hephaestion.

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Alexander and Hephaestion, the love of his life | Alexander: The Making of a God | Netflix

Expert interviews and gripping reenactments combine to reveal the extraordinary life of Alexander the Great and his burning desire to conquer the world.

[marinakaye]

Read somewhere, when Hephaestion died Alexander laid on top of him for think it was a day or two, without eating or drinking and had to be dragged from him. Aah...love..

[KimNTennessee]

I am straight, but THIS is how same-sex relationships should be presented to the world. I return to this scene time and again because the love is spectacular. This is so well done. I watched the entire series, and this is the only scene that stuck with me. It is haunting and beautiful.

[gipkucq]

I love the fact that they emphasized the love that Alexander and Hephaestion felt for each other!

[Larissa-gwoc]

THIS is how you make an educational documentary, people.

[crumbsintopebbles]

I actually like this scene because, even though it's 'sexy', their intimacy doesn't come off as purely sexual. It's evident that they really love and care about each other.

[ValendianRiskbreaker]

The saddest thing is that Alexander's grief and pain over the loss of Hephaestion was so raw, he never quite recovered from it. He ended up following Hephaestion in death just 8 months later.

[krispi]

As a greek it really pains me that modern greek are ashamed for some parts of their history. Like we are not taught that Athenians practiced pederasty (in a totally different way than modern times), Spartans used to grow until the age of 30 without touching a woman, Cretans kidnapped their young lovers, Thebes had a whole army of same sex warriors, Macedonians practiced same sex relationship especially in the high society. Even gods like Zeus, Apollo and Poseidon had male lovers.

[EyeLean]

Phillip of Macedon was known to be bisexual, and in Alexander's time his relationship to Hephaestion was compared to that between Achilles and Patroclus. Given that most Intellectuals at that time interpreted Achilles and Patroclus as lovers, it's pretty clear they thought Alexander and Hephaestion were, too.

[raynemykels]

I mean coming out the water like that, zaddy take me ( rips off clothes) 😂😂😂

[billyblastoff]

I mean, I don’t understand why people are all up in arms about it. On Netflix’s Reddit post, even the guys claiming they don’t care about gay people or what they do, were saying how a literal maybe 15-20 sec kiss was the worst thing ever, some guy said he didn’t expect having to explain to his 6 year-old what 2 naked men making out meant. Which, first off, you’re okay with war, killing or straight people kissing in front of your 6 year old, but 2 guys kissing, who you can’t even tell are naked, is where you draw the line? Lmfao! Oh, and of course the homophobic “controversy” people were saying all Netflix was doing was “pushing their ‘gay agenda’ down everyone’s throats!?” 🤔🙄🤣 Like, that’s literally fking insane. I, for the life of me, cannot fathom the way some people think. I just seriously can’t understand how they can have so much hate in their hearts for the way somebody loves another person when it doesn’t, in any way, shape or form, affect them in the slightest.
(Speaking as an American here. Native in fact.) People are way too hung up on a “me vs. them” mentality. Your ancestors only happened to be here, for you to then end up being born here, from killing, enslaving, and hating the other races from the rest of the world, plus the ones that were already here. America is literally just a melting pot of people from different cultures, backgrounds and races all over the world, and if people could grow tf up and realize that if we did learn to get along and protect each other, left vs. right be damned, we would in fact be a force to be reckoned with.
But go off queens.

[Jack_]

The people in this comment are really something.
Let me explain something:
Gay, lesbien, bi, those terms did not exist, it was sexual. As a male greek, there was only one real rule to sexual relationships. Be the penetrator. basically, the younger one was the bottom, while the older one was often the top (Erastes and Eromenos) This was not only for sex, the older one would take the younger one under his wing and teach him basic life skills (this was also something which happened in ancient Japan)
And you know what, in Thebe, homosexuality was highly incouraged. There was the Sacred Band of Thebes, An army, founded to protect the land: all 150 of them in sexual relationships with eachother. This was created because the Greeks thought that if you were in battle with your lover, than you will fight harder.
Can in also remind you of Hadrian, the emperor than was so in love with his male lover Antinous, that he made him a god and build a city for him when he drowned.
Many Roman philosophers praised homosexuality as a form of romantic love.
Oh and in the books, there was a young man named Bagaos, he was a Persian eunuch, he was originally the lover of Darius 3, was also most likely a lover of Alexander. There is a passage in which Alexander kissed Bagaos after the cheering of the man.
Being gay has nothing to do with wokeness. It comes to us, and other animals, naturally. We have been sexual with eachother for centuries. You can't change the past to make your present view on relationships fit.

[vasanthsubramaniam]

This series was one of the best things I've seen on Netflix.. after a long time.

[napoiskafarming]

Maybe Netflix isn't so bad after all

[Елена-гфу]

Их любовь заботливая, сдержанная, деликатная и не похотливая! И какая-то.... сейчас найду подходящий термин.... Вдумчивая! Либо очень осознанная!!! Здесь видна прежде всего духовная близость. От этого любовь красивая! Сколько веков прошло, а? А мы до сих пор не можем забыть.😂

[DR-yytx]

PLEASE let Trixie and Katya react to this! I need them to call Alexander a fierce 🚬

[enthusiast]

Let me tell you something. There is nothing more beautiful in this world than man love.

[Aleks_Ovski]

Straight man mentality: I didn't picture myself being gay when I fantasized myself as an unstoppable warrior - so therefore this is wrong and no man would ever.

[FreakyTeeth]

I'm not the biggest fan of Netflix, but this TV show honestly did a WAY better job than the 2004 movie which depicted Alexander as just a raging mommy's boy.

[daniels]

Love, sex, and marriage were three separate things in their culture. Especially because Dorian society was so warlike, men were often much closer to each other than to women, including their wives. You married to produce legitimate children, so sex was expected, but love was optional. As noted here, they had no concept of sexual orientations, only of sexual acts. So, this kind of intimacy between men was not a category, just a relationship. Plus, expectations of monogamy were practically nonexistent, so nothing said that it you had a wife you had to give up other lovers. It was rather unfair, because expectations imposed on women were much more strict (usually).

[marionchua]

The love story between Alexander the Great and Hephaestion Amyntoros has been a favorite of mine for decades and the docuseries portrayed it so beautifully. They were one soul inhabiting two bodies or soulmates if you will.