"Do You Recognise Iskandar? " Topic

"There is always a pleasure in seeing what an almighty mess humans can make of ‘historical' traditions. Take the following story about someone who is known by every reader of this blog, but who has arrived here, some fifteen hundred years after his death, in a guise that is not (ahem) particularly reminiscent of the historical original. Beach has run together a series of traditions from that period from Persia (modern Iran): not all appear in the same text.

Iskandar was a prophet of God and a Persian royal. He had grown up though with the King of Rome, because the Roman king's daughter had married the King of Persia, Darab, but had then been sent away (pregnant) because she had such appallingly bad breath. Iskandar grew up to challenge Darab's son (Iskandar's brother) and, having defeated him in battle, he took over the land of the Persians where he was welcomed as a good Muslim. He married one of Darab's grand-daughters Buran Dokht (his niece?), who was very likely an Iranian goddess, Anahita, and she helped him in his adventures in India and tried to ignore his dalliances with other women, including the forty Greek virgins he deflowered in a single night, and the Chinese maiden who brought him to ecstasy in the far east. Iskandar saw many other marvels in his expeditions in the orient including the land of giant spiders and the land of bearded women with male and female genitals. He proved a wise ruler and God always protected him until the whispering tree at the world's end announced his death. Oh and Iskandar never lost a battle…"
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Amicalement
Armand

That's really jumbled.

Not that some more recent historical icons with supposedly well-known histories have been treated much better, never mind a few who are still alive.

The connection is well know to those who grew up in Greece Tukrey, Iran but it is a bit hard for many who did not. It also in city names

Alexandretta-Iskenderum

In many ways Alexander was one of the first historical personalities to become "global" before the advent of industrial globalization.

I think Coka Cola gave ol Sainty Nic a bad rip too, shame.

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