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The Iskandarnameh follows the general outlines of Alexander the Great in the Shahnameh, an earlier text of Persian poetry composed by Ferdowsi, in its narration of how Alexander encounters the Fountain of Life. First, Alexander gives a jewel to the mystical figure, Khidr, and instructs him to use it to help find a body of shining water. Khidr ...
Cecil Frances Alexander (April 1818 – 12 October 1895) [1] was an Anglo-Irish hymnwriter and poet. Amongst other works, she wrote " All Things Bright and Beautiful ", " There is a green hill far away " and the Christmas carol " Once in Royal David's City ".
Adrianus (Gr. Αδριανός) was a Greek poet who wrote an epic poem on the history of Alexander the Great, which was called the Alexandriad (Αλεξανδριάς).What is chiefly known of this poem comes from a mention of the seventh book in the Suda, [1] but only a fragment consisting of one line survives. [2]
Archaeological site of Pella, Greece, Alexander's birthplace. Alexander III was born in Pella, the capital of the Kingdom of Macedon, [10] on the sixth day of the ancient Greek month of Hekatombaion, which probably corresponds to 20 July 356 BC (although the exact date is uncertain).
Alexander is mentioned in the Zoroastrian Middle Persian work Arda Wiraz Nāmag as gizistag aleksandar ī hrōmāyīg, literally "Alexander the accursed, the Roman", [1] [2] [3] due to his conquest of the Achaemenid Persian Empire and the burning of its ceremonial capital Persepolis, which was holding the sacred texts of Zoroastrianism in its Royal Archives.
Many Alexander legends are found in the writings of the Greek historian Plutarch, such as that Alexander was born in the same day that the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus was burnt down, during which the god Artemis was too preoccupied with his birth to pay the requisite attention needed to save her burning temple. Later in life when Alexander ...
Alexanders saga is an Old Norse translation of Alexandreis, an epic Latin poem about the life of Alexander the Great written by Walter of Châtillon, which was itself based on Quintus Curtius Rufus's Historia Alexandri Magni. [1]
Alexandreis. The Alexandreis (or Alexandreid) is a medieval Latin epic poem by Walter of Châtillon, a 12th-century French writer and theologian.It gives an account of the life of Alexander the Great, based on Quintus Curtius Rufus' Historia Alexandri Magni.