Golden Dance
Added 2022-10-11 13:25:32 +0000 UTCHQ 3k full artwork~
Old artwork and description.
"A slightly unusual image of Bagoas with dark-golden hair (by the way, the ancient Persians very often used henna and saffron for dyed their hair).
Bagoas is the Persian eunuch exceptional in beauty, lover of of Darius and later of Alexander the Great. Bagoas also was the dance master, winner of a competition in dancing.
"According to Plutarch, Bagoas won a dancing contest after the Macedonian crossing of the Gedrosian Desert. The Macedonian troops, with whom Bagoas was very popular, demanded that king Alexander should kiss Bagoas, and he did so. Athenaeus tells that King Alexander also was madly devoted to boys. Dicaearchus, at any rate, in his book On the Sacrifice at Ilium, says that he was so overcome with love for the eunuch Bagoas that, in full view of the entire theatre, he, bending over, caressed Bagoas fondly, and when the audience clapped and shouted in applause, he, nothing loath, again bent over and kissed him deeply."
