A new Netflix docuseries raises the topic of Alexander the Great's sexuality. Historians say the King's greatest love was Hephaestion, the son of a Macedonian nobleman.
Another of Alexander's lovers would have been the eunuch courtier Bagoas. Alexander was a transgressor in the years 300 BC for not loving young men, but quite the opposite: for having maintained a long-term relationship with a man his age. The King's sexual preferences are difficult to follow because there are no sources that verify them.