Locations
The city where Alexander tested adopting proskynesis with Macedonians and Greeks.
What is Bactria?
The Persian custom of bowing to your king; the only way Alexander could be publicly recognized as a god while still alive.
What is proskynesis?
Alexander's court historian who he mudered.
Who is Callisthenes?
What is a dragon, gryphons, headless men, sirens, etc.
This is the name of the Egyptian deity, sometimes equated with Zeus, that some people claimed Alexander was descended from.
Who is Ammon?
The oasis in Egypt where Alexander saw the oracle, the turning point in his claims of divinity.
What is Siwa?
The celebratory event possibly celebrated on Alexander’s birthday.
What is Alexandreia?
The philosopher who taught Alexander when he was a young adult.
Who is Aristotle?
Alexander’s mother allegedly had an affair with this god, making him Alexander’s father.
Who is Zeus?
The year that Alexander requested deification from the city-states of the League of Corinth.
What is 324 B.C.E?
What Alexander's troops found in the ground at the River Oxus.
“Olive Oil”, allegedly.
According to Alexander, this must have been one of the greatest favors granted to him by God.
Diviners said this is instead an omen that this will be a glorious but painful battle, because oil is rewarded as a refreshment after hard labor.
**May have just been water
What is the significance of the River Oxus olive oil incident?
Wrote a letter to Phillip saying that if he conquered Asia, the only thing left to do would be becoming a god.
Who is Isocrates?
This event foretold the prophecy of Alexander becoming ruler of all of Asia.
What is the untying of the Gordian Knot?
Alexander made this person a demi-god after his death in 324 B.C.E.
The place where Alexander died, disproving his divinity.
What is Babylon?
Name any kind of sickness or injury that proved Alexander’s mortality.
What is a leg wound, shoulder wound, sickness from swimming in a river, alcoholism, poisoning, etc.
A neutral ancient source who Arrian and Plutarch cite, he is also the one who says Alexander pulled the pin on the Gordian Knot, not cut it.
Who is Aristobolus?
King Midas’ town, where Alexander untied a prophetic knot on a chariot.
What is Gordium?
This Spartan man may have set the precedent for ruler-cults honoring the living before Alexander.
Who is Lysander?
The main city associated with granting Alexander's divinity request. (hint can be offered)
What is Athens?
The country that Alexander traveled through, following the story of the god Dionysus, the only other hero to travel through it.
What is India?
In his writings, said that “son of god” could have been a mistranslation. (one of the big 3)
Who is Plutarch?
Evidence that Alexander's father possibly tried to claim divinity on the very day he died.
What is having his statue following the 12 main gods, making him 13?
Name a supposed "divine favor" granted to Alexander on his way to the oasis in Siwah.
What are the guiding birds, or what is rain in the desert?