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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).
"Alexander War Chronicle"), released in North America as Reign: The Conqueror and in Europe as Alexander the Great, is a Korean-Japanese anime first released in 1999. A re-imagination of the life of Alexander the Great based on the novel of the same name by Hiroshi Aramata , the series was produced by an international crew that drew from the ...
The tomb of Alexander the Great is attested in several historical accounts, but its current exact location remains an enduring mystery. Following Alexander's death in Babylon , his body was initially buried in Memphis by one of his generals, Ptolemy I Soter , before being transferred to Alexandria , where it was reburied. [ 1 ]
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 ...
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.
Netherlands King Willem-Alexander joined the pile-on in a video posted via X on Tuesday, March 12, in which he was speaking to a group of children at a royal engagement in Zutphen. When one of ...
Alexander the Oracle Monger, a parody and exposé of a false prophet by Lucian of Samosata; The Screwtape Letters, by C. S. Lewis, 1943; Christian satire and humor magazine The Wittenburg Door (1971–2008) Robert A. Heinlein's novel Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984)