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Alexander the Great visited the Delphic Oracle wishing to hear a prophecy that he would soon conquer the entire ancient world. To his surprise the oracle refused a direct comment and asked him to come later. Furious, Alexander dragged Pythia by the hair out of the chamber until she screamed "You are invincible, my son!"
ISBN 978-1-84529-156-3. Everitt, Anthony (2021). Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death. New York City: Random House. ISBN 978-0425286531. Grant, David (2022). The Last Will and Testament of Alexander the Great: The Truth Behind the Death That Changed the Graeco-persian World Forever. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 978 ...
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).
[11]: 3 — Alexander Jannaeus, king of Judea (c. 76 BCE), to his wife "O wretched head-band!—not able to help me even in this small thing!" [15]: 15 [27] — Monime, wife of Mithridates VI (72/71 BCE), after failing to hang herself by her crown's strings in fulfillment of her death sentence "I am free and the subject of a free state." [28]
Dandamis (presumably Greek rendering of "Dandi-Svami") [1] was a philosopher, swami and gymnosophist whom Alexander encountered in the woods near Taxila, when he invaded India in 4th century B.C. He is also referred to as Mandanes. [2] He was guru of Kalanos, the noted gymnosophist, who accompanied Alexander to Persis. [3]
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]
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 ...
After Alexander defeated the last of the Achaemenid Empire's forces in battle of Gabai against Spitamenes, and Coenus (Koinos), one Alexander the Great's generals in 328 BC, he began a new campaign to Ariana in 327 BC. He wanted to conquer the entire known world, which in Alexander's day, ended on the eastern end of India.