The timing of the Pausanias' affair is really confusing, isn't it? I've never thought about the eventuality the quarrel with the younger Pausanias could have occur years before the actual rape, but Attalus thinking to be able to get away with it after having become Philip's uncle" makes perfect sense (infact I've always wondered how could he have thought to do such a thing to a man of that high position in the court - assuming Pausanias as a royal bodyguard, at the time of his rape).
One thing though: if Pausanias was in his late teens at the time of the rape, and the quarrel with Pausanias-B happened years before, that would made him almost a child, at the time of his affair with Philip?O_o (gosh, quite a young Eromenos for the king, wasn't he?)
The only slight corrective I might add is that they may also have graduated in the agema of the Companion's, at least once Alexander was in charge of it. I'd like to talk to Waldemar about that sometime.
When I read the Heckel's book I was thingink about this; infact if the royal pages' graduation was the Hypaspist's agema, that would mean Alexander's closest friends would be fighting in the Hypaspist ranks at the times of his first campaigns, and that really made no sense to me, since I assumed Alexander would have preferred to have his men under his own command.
So if Hephaistion and co. "graduated" in the cavalry's agema and not in the hypaspist's corps that would explain many things!^^
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Date: 2004-12-08 04:31 pm (UTC)The timing of the Pausanias' affair is really confusing, isn't it?
I've never thought about the eventuality the quarrel with the younger Pausanias could have occur years before the actual rape, but Attalus thinking to be able to get away with it after having become Philip's uncle" makes perfect sense (infact I've always wondered how could he have thought to do such a thing to a man of that high position in the court - assuming Pausanias as a royal bodyguard, at the time of his rape).
One thing though: if Pausanias was in his late teens at the time of the rape, and the quarrel with Pausanias-B happened years before, that would made him almost a child, at the time of his affair with Philip?O_o (gosh, quite a young Eromenos for the king, wasn't he?)
The only slight corrective I might add is that they may also have graduated in the agema of the Companion's, at least once Alexander was in charge of it. I'd like to talk to Waldemar about that sometime.
When I read the Heckel's book I was thingink about this; infact if the royal pages' graduation was the Hypaspist's agema, that would mean Alexander's closest friends would be fighting in the Hypaspist ranks at the times of his first campaigns, and that really made no sense to me, since I assumed Alexander would have preferred to have his men under his own command.
So if Hephaistion and co. "graduated" in the cavalry's agema and not in the hypaspist's corps that would explain many things!^^
Thank you!