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time  Puppet - Greek Shadow Puppet Theatre, Alexander the Great,
early 1960s Object Reg. No: SH 911443  Alternative Name(s):
Megalexandros   Megalexandros [Alexander the Great] is is a
character in the centuries-old Greek Shadow Puppet Theatre
(Karaghiozis) tradition. He is stately and commands respect. He
is just, proud and is protector of the weak and the scorned.
Megalexandros features in two or three stories as well as in one
comedy. The best known play is 'Megalexandros [Alexander the
Great] and the Cursed Snake'. A huge snake appears in the
spiderweb-filled cave and spreads fear and death. The bravest
men confronted it but lost their lives. In order to save the
public, the Vizier (the Veziris - originally a Persian term for
a high-ranking political, and sometimes religious, advisor or
minister, often to a Muslim monarch such as a Sultan) offered
his daughter and many thousands of po