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The Seventeenth Book of Diodorus: in Two Parts
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In keeping with this magnificence and the other special marks
of honour at the funeral, Alexander ended by decreeing that all should sacrifice to Hephaestion
as god coadjutor.1 As a matter of fact, it happened just at this time that Philip, one of the
Friends, came bearing a response from Ammon that Hephaestion should be worshipped as a god.
Alexander was delighted that the god had ratified his own opinion, was himself the first to
perform the sacrifice, and entertained everybody handsomely. The sacrifice consisted of ten
thousand victims of all sorts.
1 Lucian Calumniae non temere credendum 17 gives a fuller account of Hephaestion's deification; he received temples and precincts in the cities, his name was used in the most solemn of oaths, and he received sacrifice as a πάρεδρος καὶ ἀλεξίκακος θεός. No archaeological record of any of this remains (C. Habicht, Gottmenschentum und griechische Städte, 1956), and the ancient tradition was various. Justin 12.12.12 reports, like Diodorus, that Alexander ordered that Hephaestion was to be worshipped "ut deum." Plut. Alexander 72.2 states that Ammon recommended that he should be honoured as a hero, and so did he also according to Arrian. 7.23.6, after first refusing to allow him divine worship (Arrian. 7.14.7). The term πάρεδρος is odd: elsewhere it seems to mean a priest (G. E. Bean, Journal of Hellenic Studies, 72 (1952), 118.
Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.
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