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Alexander Senki (Japanese: アレクサンダー戦記, Hepburn: Arekusandā Senki, lit."Alexander War Chronicle"), released in North America as Reign: The Conqueror, in Europe as Alexander the Great, and in South America simply as Alexander, [1] is a Korean-Japanese anime first released in 1999.
Philostratus the Elder in the Life of Apollonius of Tyana writes that in the army of Porus, there was an elephant who fought bravely against Alexander's army, and Alexander dedicated it to the Helios (Sun) and named it Ajax because he thought that such a great animal deserved a great name. The elephant had gold rings around its tusks and an ...
Xerxes: The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of Alexander, [7] [8] [9] or simply Xerxes, [10] [11] is a 2018 comic book limited series written and illustrated by Frank Miller. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Acting as both a prequel and sequel to the events chronicled in Miller's earlier series 300 , a fictional retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae ...
The Cartoon History of the Universe – From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great (Volumes 1–7). Doubleday. p. 368. ISBN 0-385-26520-4. Gonick, Larry (1994). The Cartoon History of the Universe II – From the Springtime of China to the Fall of Rome (Volumes 8–13). Doubleday. p. 305. ISBN 0-385-42093-5. Gonick, Larry (2002).
Animated films based on classical mythology, the myths from the ancient Greeks and ancient Romans. Pages in category "Animated films based on classical mythology" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
Whether you’re queuing up an animated classic like "The Polar Express" or funny comedy like "Christmas Vacation," there’s a revolving door of picks to bring on the merry mood.
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.
According to legend, Alexander went on pilgrimage to the Siwa Oasis, the sanctuary of the Greco-Egyptian deity Zeus Ammon in 331 BC. There, he was pronounced by the Oracle to be the son of Zeus Ammon, [2] allowing him to therefore have the Horns of Ammon, which themselves followed from Egyptian iconography of Ammon as a ram-headed god or, in his Greek-form, a man with ram horns. [3]