Bagoas (abdi)
Bagoas (bahasa Persia Kuno: 𐎲𐎦𐎡 Bagoi, bahasa Yunani Kuno: Βαγώας Bagōas) adalah seorang kasim dalam pemerintahan Kekaisaran Persia pada abad ke-4 SM. Bagoas adalah seorang kasim yang menjadi abdi setia dari Darius[1] dan Aleksander Agung.[2]
Catatan
sunting- ^ ...with whom Darius was intimate and with whom Alexander would later be intimate... "Quintus Curtius Rufus"(BOOK VI. 5.23)
- ^ ...the Eunuch Bagoas, who by now had gained Alexander's affection through putting his body at his services[26]...Alexander's strong attachment to Bagoas. "The History of Alexander" by Quintus Curtius Rufus
Sumber
sunting- Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, xiii; Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Alexander", 67; Aelian, Varia Historia, iii. 23; Curtius, Historiae Alexandri Magni, vi. 5. 23; x. 1. 25
Pranala luar
sunting- "Bagoas Pleads on Behalf of Nabarzanes," illuminated parchment by the Master of the Jardin de vertueuse consolation, in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum