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'Alexander the great - and the Gordian knot'
Alexander Gallery
'Alexander
and the Gordian knot'
'If
then such praise the Macedonian got
For having rudely cut the Gordian Knot'
.....Waller ...to the King
(original medallion)
The father of gods had ordained that
when it came time for the people to select a king, they must choose the
first person to ride up to the temple of Zeus in a wagon. Gordius innocently
fulfilled the oracle and was made king. (The system might be an improvement
over a methods of election held today. Certainly it would eliminate political
campaigns). In any event, Gordius seems to have done very well. One of
his first acts was to dedicate his wagon to Zeus and to place it near the
temple, the yoke tied to the pole by an intricate knot of cornel bark.
Another oracle declared that anyone who succeeded in untying the knot would
be the conqueror of all Asia. The knot stayed tied until the arrival of
Alexander. Then, as everybody knows, he cheated on the oracle by cutting
the knot with his sword instead of untying it. Zeus honored his initiative
by making the prophecy come true.
'Turn him to any cause of policy,
The Gordian Knot of it he will unloose,
Familiar as his garter' ....Shakespear (HenryV, 1.i)
'The Gordian Knot 'Three sayings
used by pompous orators for hundreds of years as classical figures of speech
are "as rich as Croesus", "I came, I saw, I conquered",
and "to cut the Gordian Knot". All three had their original home
in Türkiye. The first applied to a Lydian king; the second was said
by Julius Caesar after a battle in Asia Minor, 47 B.C., in which he defeated
Pharnaces II, King of Pontus; the last refers to a legend of ancient Phrygia.
The city of Gordium, now called Gordion, is about a hundred miles west
of Ankara. It was the capital of ancient Phrygia. One of its rules was
a peasant named Gordius, who gave his name to the city after fulfilling
an oracle of Zeus.
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Alexander was reputedly a strong,
handsome commander with one eye dark as a night and one blue as a sky,
always leading his army on his faithful stallion Bucephalo, accompanied
by the best military formation of the time, the Macedonian Phalanx which
was armed with sarisses, the fearful five and half meter long spears.
Parmenion
the general shown here on the left of Alexander (also called the Lion of
Macedon) had acquired great popularity in the army. As Phillip's general
his reputation was of a general who had never lost a battle. During the
siege of Tyre, the Persian king Darius sent a letter to pay ransom of 10,000
talents for his family and cede all his lands west of the Euphrates to
Alexander. On that occasion Alexander's general Parmenion advised him to
accept. "I would accept, were I Alexander." Parmenio said ; "I
too, were I Parmenio!" was Alexander's famous retort;
Alexander III of Macedon died in
his 33rd year; and had reigned for 12 years and eight months. ('Alexander and the Gordian Knot' Oil Painting 52" x 53" by John Hagan ©1996)
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