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

1. ...with whom Darius was intimate and with whom Alexander would later be intimate... "Quintus Curtius Rufus"(BOOK VI. 5.23)
2. ...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

• 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

• "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