Legendary accounts surrounding the life of Alexander the Great
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The vast conquests of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great quickly inspired the formation and diffusion of legendary material about his deity, journeys, and tales. These appeared shortly after his death, and some may have already begun forming during his lifetime. Common themes and symbols, among legends about Alexander include the Gates of Alexander, the Horns of Alexander, and the Gordian Knot.
In the third century AD, an anonymous author writing in the name of Alexander's court historian Callisthenes (commonly referred to as Pseudo-Callisthenes) authored the Greek Alexander Romance. This text would spawn a genre of literature about the legends and exploits of Alexander across centuries, going through over one hundred versions in premodern times and appearing in almost every language in both European and Islamic worlds.
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themes and symbols, among legends about Alexander include the Gates of Alexander, the Horns of Alexander, and the Gordian Knot. Inthe third century AD, an...
Syriac Legend of AlexandertheGreat. According to this legend, Alexander travelled to the ends of the world then built a wall inthe Caucasus mountains...
AlexandertheGreat was a king of ancient Greece and Macedon who forged one of the largest empires in world history. Soon after his death, a body of legend...
TheAlexander Romance, once described as "antiquity's most successful novel", is an account of the life and exploits of AlexandertheGreat. The Romance...
antiquity, AlexandertheGreat would come to be depicted as a Christian. This is figured prominently inthe Syriac AlexanderLegend. The horns of Alexander are...
AlexandertheGreat was the king of the Kingdom of Macedon and the founder of an empire that stretched from Greece to northwestern India. Legends surrounding...
The meeting of Diogenes of Sinope and AlexandertheGreat is one of the most discussed anecdotes from philosophical history. Many versions of it exist...
John T. Alexander. Catherine theGreat: Life and Legend. Oxford University Press, 1989. p. 222. Alexander 222. "Biography of Catherine theGreat, Empress...
closely the text in its Syriac translation. The Romance genre functioned to preserve and describe thelegends and exploits of AlexandertheGreat. Although...
The death of AlexandertheGreat and subsequent related events have been the subjects of debates. According to a Babylonian astronomical diary, Alexander...
Richard (2008). AlexandertheGreat: A Life inLegend. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11203-0. Tarn, WW (1948). AlexandertheGreat. Cambridge: Cambridge...
The tomb of AlexandertheGreat is attested in several historical accounts, but its current exact location remains an enduring mystery. Following Alexander's...
The Hadīth Dhī ʾl-Qarnayn (or Hadith Dhulqarnayn), also known as the Leyenda de Alejandro, is an anonymous Hispano-Arabic legend of Alexanderthe Great...
The cutting of the Gordian Knot is an Ancient Greek legend associated with AlexandertheGreatin Gordium in Phrygia, regarding a complex knot that tied...
326 BC) was the horse of AlexandertheGreat, and one of the most famous horses of classical antiquity. According to theAlexander Romance (1.15), the name "Bucephalus"...
The Qiṣṣat Dhī ʾl-Qarnayn (Qissat Dhulqarnayn, "Story of Dhulqarnayn") is a Hispano-Arabic legend of AlexandertheGreat preserved in two fourteenth-century...
Perhaps behind thelegend lies the offering by a Scythian king of his daughter as a wife for Alexander, as the latter himself wrote in a letter to Antipater...
AlexandertheGreat's accomplishments and legacy have been preserved and depicted in many ways. Alexander has figured in works of both "high" and popular...
The İskendernâme (Epic of Alexander) is a poem by the Turkish poet Taceddin Ahmedi (1334–1413), completed inthe early fifteenth century. It is the first...
The Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem ("Letter of Alexander to Aristotle") is a purported letter from AlexandertheGreat to the philosopher Aristotle...
Aegean after the death of Alexander. Thelegend states that Alexander, in his quest for the Fountain of Immortality, retrieved with great exertion a flask...
"Introduction: Formation and Diffusion of theAlexanderLegend". In Stoneman, Richard (ed.). A history of AlexandertheGreatin world culture. Cambridge, United...
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