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The story is as follows. An oracle declares that the next man to drive an ox cart into the city of Telmissus is to become the king. Gordias went from peasant farmer to king and dedicated his oxcart to the gods by tying it to a post with a complex knot that was “several knots all so tightly entangled that it was impossible to see how they were fastened”.
An oracle said that the man who was able to untie the knot would become the king of all Asia. The story goes that Alexander the Great came along and cut the knit to pieces with his sword. While allegorical, was any part of the Alexander Gordian Knit story true? What are the sources to support any evidence that it actually happened?
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