ofmodernmyths:THE LIBRARY“On the night of Alexander’s birth, tradition alleged, the temple of Artemi
ofmodernmyths:THE LIBRARY“On the night of Alexander’s birth, tradition alleged, the temple of Artemis was burnt down. The local Persian Magi interpreted this as an omen of further disasters to come. They ‘ran about beating their faces and crying aloud that woe and great calamity for Asia had that day been born’, a firebrand that was destined to destroy the entire East. The night before her wedding, similarly, Olympias dreamed she was penetrated by a thunderbolt, so that fire gushed out of her womb, spreading far and wide before it was extinguished. A month or two later Philip also had a dream: he was sealing up his wife’s vagina, and the wax bore the stamped device of a lion. Some of the palace seers took this to mean that Philip should keep a closer watch on his wife. But Aristander of Telmessus - who afterwards accompanied Alexander to Asia - had a more acceptable explanation: Olympias was pregnant, and with a spirited, lion-like son. One did not, he told Philip, put a seal on an empty jar.”Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C: A Historical Biography, Peter Green, 1974 (2013 reprint).+ complementary reading: Alexander’s Lovers (second edition), Andrew Chugg, 2006. -- source link
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