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This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Antonella Ippolito and first published on 12/12/2006.

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Biography:

The biographical information that we have for the metrician¹ Hephaestion is quite meager. O. Hense (Hephaistion [n. 7], RE 8, 1 [1912], p. 295) thought that he was the son of Ptolemy Chennos² and that his grandfather was th…