 | 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... 37 KB (4,545 words) - 23:48, 18 April 2024 |
 | Syriac Legend of Alexander the Great. According to this legend, Alexander travelled to the ends of the world then built a wall in the Caucasus mountains... 102 KB (13,477 words) - 21:28, 2 May 2024 |
| Alexander the Great 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... 24 KB (3,051 words) - 23:41, 18 April 2024 |
 | The Alexander Romance, once described as "antiquity's most successful novel", is an account of the life and exploits of Alexander the Great. The Romance... 81 KB (9,876 words) - 03:57, 10 May 2024 |
 | antiquity, Alexander the Great would come to be depicted as a Christian. This is figured prominently in the Syriac Alexander Legend. The horns of Alexander are... 15 KB (1,881 words) - 16:16, 14 April 2024 |
 | Dhu al-Qarnayn (redirect from Theories about Cyrus the Great in the Quran) concealed the Gog and Magog from human eyes. According to some historians, the story of Dhu al-Qarnayn has its origins in legends of Alexander the Great current... 45 KB (4,395 words) - 19:23, 11 May 2024 |
| associated with Alexander legends, as in the Alexander Romance, the Syriac Alexander Romance, and the Qissat Dhulqarnayn. Pliny the Elder (23 AD – 25... 23 KB (2,916 words) - 07:31, 25 April 2024 |
Alexander the Great was the king of the Kingdom of Macedon and the founder of an empire that stretched from Greece to northwestern India. Legends surrounding... 35 KB (4,865 words) - 01:52, 23 April 2024 |
 | The meeting of Diogenes of Sinope and Alexander the Great is one of the most discussed anecdotes from philosophical history. Many versions of it exist... 32 KB (3,979 words) - 20:56, 28 October 2023 |
 | John T. Alexander. Catherine the Great: Life and Legend. Oxford University Press, 1989. p. 222. Alexander 222. "Biography of Catherine the Great, Empress... 12 KB (1,550 words) - 01:33, 1 April 2024 |
closely the text in its Syriac translation. The Romance genre functioned to preserve and describe the legends and exploits of Alexander the Great. Although... 5 KB (675 words) - 08:18, 21 April 2024 |
 | The death of Alexander the Great and subsequent related events have been the subjects of debates. According to a Babylonian astronomical diary, Alexander... 23 KB (2,635 words) - 12:27, 22 April 2024 |
Legend concerning Alexander" or the "Christian Syriac Alexander Legend" (CSAL)), is a Syriac legendary account of the exploits of Alexander the Great... 26 KB (3,464 words) - 04:59, 2 May 2024 |
 | Richard (2008). Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11203-0. Tarn, WW (1948). Alexander the Great. Cambridge: Cambridge... 217 KB (22,080 words) - 17:17, 8 May 2024 |
 | The tomb of Alexander the Great is attested in several historical accounts, but its current exact location remains an enduring mystery. Following Alexander's... 20 KB (2,151 words) - 08:57, 5 May 2024 |
7th centuries AD concerning legends about Alexander the Great. It had been falsely attributed nearly unanimously in the manuscript tradition to Jacob... 7 KB (899 words) - 04:58, 27 April 2024 |
Hadith Dhulqarnayn (category Alexander the Great in legend) The Hadīth Dhī ʾl-Qarnayn (or Hadith Dhulqarnayn), also known as the Leyenda de Alejandro, is an anonymous Hispano-Arabic legend of Alexander the Great... 4 KB (428 words) - 05:41, 6 April 2024 |
Iskandarnameh (Nizami) (category Alexander the Great in legend) describes Alexander the Great as an idealized hero, sage, and king. More uniquely, he is also a seeker of knowledge who debates with great philosophers... 13 KB (1,733 words) - 23:41, 18 April 2024 |
 | Gordian Knot (redirect from Cut the Gordian Knot) The cutting of the Gordian Knot is an Ancient Greek legend associated with Alexander the Great in Gordium in Phrygia, regarding a complex knot that tied... 9 KB (1,109 words) - 06:52, 26 February 2024 |
Iskandarnameh (category Alexander the Great in legend) the Christian tradition. Leiden Boston: Brill. p. 130. ISBN 978-90-04-18345-2. Casari, Mario (2023). "The Alexander Legend in Persian Literature". In... 7 KB (769 words) - 23:49, 18 April 2024 |
 | Bucephalus (category Alexander the Great in legend) 326 BC) was the horse of Alexander the Great, and one of the most famous horses of classical antiquity. According to the Alexander Romance (1.15), the name "Bucephalus"... 7 KB (839 words) - 23:57, 1 May 2024 |
Qissat Dhulqarnayn (category Alexander the Great in legend) The Qiṣṣat Dhī ʾl-Qarnayn (Qissat Dhulqarnayn, "Story of Dhulqarnayn") is a Hispano-Arabic legend of Alexander the Great preserved in two fourteenth-century... 9 KB (1,240 words) - 01:59, 14 March 2024 |
Iskendername (category Alexander the Great in legend) The İskendernâme (Epic of Alexander) is a poem by the Turkish poet Taceddin Ahmedi (1334–1413), completed in the early fifteenth century. It is the first... 10 KB (1,219 words) - 13:37, 22 March 2024 |
 | Thalestris (category Alexander the Great in legend) Perhaps behind the legend 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... 4 KB (559 words) - 21:09, 6 March 2024 |
 | Nysa (mythology) (category Alexander the Great in legend) celebrated in the Sanskrit poems." When Alexander the Great arrived at the city of Nysa, representatives of the city met and told him not to capture the city... 5 KB (577 words) - 20:13, 16 November 2023 |
 | The wars of Alexander the Great (Greek: Πόλεμοι του Μεγάλου Αλεξάνδρου) were a series of conquests that were carried out by Alexander III of Macedon from... 69 KB (7,844 words) - 22:35, 3 April 2024 |
Historia de preliis (category Alexander the Great in legend) "Introduction: Formation and Diffusion of the Alexander Legend". In Stoneman, Richard (ed.). A history of Alexander the Great in world culture. Cambridge, United... 14 KB (1,945 words) - 19:13, 11 April 2024 |
Kherad-name (category Alexander the Great in legend) it focuses on legends of Alexander the Great as recounted in Nizami's Iskandarnameh and ultimately in the tradition of the Alexander Romance genre of... 6 KB (825 words) - 23:42, 18 April 2024 |
 | The Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem ("Letter of Alexander to Aristotle") is a purported letter from Alexander the Great to the philosopher Aristotle... 9 KB (1,138 words) - 20:59, 28 October 2023 |
 | Thessalonike of Macedon (category Alexander the Great in legend) Aegean after the death of Alexander. The legend states that Alexander, in his quest for the Fountain of Immortality, retrieved with great exertion a flask... 12 KB (1,326 words) - 14:28, 12 April 2024 |