Alexander cutting the Gordian Knot' oil on canvas. Jean-Simon Berthelemy (1743-1811) French history painter. Legend is, in 333 BC at Gordium, Phrygia, Alexander the Great, unable to untie the knot, sliced it with his sword. Alexandrian solution.

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Alexander cutting the Gordian Knot' oil on canvas. Jean-Simon Berthelemy (1743-1811) French history painter. Legend is, in 333 BC at Gordium, Phrygia, Alexander the Great, unable to untie the knot, sliced it with his sword. Alexandrian solution.

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