This story hurts as bad as accounts of Heph's death.
I've been reading and re-reading all these fics, and this one hurts the *most* I think, precisely because there's no reassurance of everlasting love between these two from other stories. Strangely, or perhaps not so strangely, I see parallels of character between Alexander and Philip in this. This incident reminds me of the Eumenes incident in ways more than the conflict between personal loyalty and duties of kingship. Alexander and Philip both tend toward a stubborness that may seem a bit cold....Good thing Hephaistion's understanding. As for Pausanias, what's been done to him and Philip's reaction perhaps a demonstration of the problem between two lovers of vastly unequal social status....
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Date: 2005-06-15 07:38 am (UTC)I've been reading and re-reading all these fics, and this one hurts the *most* I think, precisely because there's no reassurance of everlasting love between these two from other stories. Strangely, or perhaps not so strangely, I see parallels of character between Alexander and Philip in this. This incident reminds me of the Eumenes incident in ways more than the conflict between personal loyalty and duties of kingship. Alexander and Philip both tend toward a stubborness that may seem a bit cold....Good thing Hephaistion's understanding. As for Pausanias, what's been done to him and Philip's reaction perhaps a demonstration of the problem between two lovers of vastly unequal social status....