Bagoas (disambiguation)

Bagoas, actually Bagāvahyā in Old Persian, is the short form of several theophoric names often used for eunuchs.[1][2]

Bagoas may refer to:

  • Bagoas the Persian, 5th-century governor of the Achaemenid province of Yehud, known from the Elephantine papyri
  • Bagoas (died 336 BC), a Persian minister of Artaxerxes III
  • Bagoas (courtier), a favourite of Alexander the Great
  • An Assyrian eunuch, servant of the general Holofernes in the Book of Judith
  • The Abrial A-12 Bagoas, a French experimental glider of the 1930s

References
  1. Nelson, Richard (2014). Historical Roots of the Old Testament (1200-63 BCE). Biblical Encyclopedia. 13. Society of Biblical Literature (SBL Press). p. 208. ISBN 978-1-62837-006-5. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  2. Bagoas, Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition (1910–11), via theodora.com. Accessed 28 September 2020.
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