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The Modern Pronunciation of the Classical Proper Name “Hephaestion” in English Literature

The Classical name “Hephaestion,” which is the proper name of Alexander the Great’s general and the Greek grammarian of the 2nd century AD, has had a most peculiar, and confusing, history in modern English literature and language in terms of its pronunciation. There have been five different pronunciations in English accepted in learned circles over the past three centuries, as follows (in standard IPA symbols):