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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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Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... Pages in category "Alexander the Great in art" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
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 ...
Philip II, Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Heritage, ed. W. Lindsay Adams and Eugene N. Borza. University Press of America, 1982. ISBN 0-8191-2448-6; The Larnakes from Tomb II at Vergina. Archaeological News. John Paul Adams; In the Shadow of Olympus: The Emergence of Macedon, Eugene N. Borza. Princeton University Press, 1990.
Alexander the Great in legend (2 C, 43 P) Pages in category "Cultural depictions of Alexander the Great" The following 66 pages are in this category, out of 66 total.
The Romance genre functioned to preserve and describe the legends and exploits of Alexander the Great. Although the Shahnameh is a much larger text and contains legends of many other rulers of Greater Iran , three consecutive sections of it cover Alexander (who the text refers to as "Sekandar"), amounting to ~2,500 verses.