Hephaistion (356 - 324 BC.) Hephaistion, was the son of Macedonian aristocrat Amyntas, and he was the dearest Alexander's friend ever since from his childhood, and for Roman historian Q. Curtius Rufus he is described as: omnium amicorum carissimus. From age 13 to 16 he and Alexander, at the park of Mieza, together with the other boys belonging to the Macedonian aristocracy were taught by ...