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English: Portrait of Alexander the Great. Marble, Hellenistic artwork, 2nd-1st century BC. Marble, Hellenistic artwork, 2nd-1st century BC. Said to be from Alexandria, Egypt.
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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 ...
Confidence of Alexander the Great in his physician Philip during grave illness (1870, State Russian Museum) In a letter dated 24 January 1870, [Note 1] Siemiradzki wrote to his family: "At last we have been given a theme for the big gold medal, it is without doubt better than Diogenes; it is an episode from the life of Alexander the Great". [22]
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.
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