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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    associated with Alexander legends, as in the Alexander Romance, the Syriac Alexander Romance, and the Qissat Dhulqarnayn. Pliny the Elder (23 AD – 25...
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    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...
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    John T. Alexander. Catherine the Great: Life and Legend. Oxford University Press, 1989. p. 222. Alexander 222. "Biography of Catherine the Great, Empress...
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    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...
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