This man's conflict with his father was mediated by the elderly Damaratus of Corinth and he looked to Ada of Caria as a mother figure in part because his own mother was an orgiastic snake-worshipping Dyoniasc who had ordered the incineration of his half-sister Europa. Callisthenes of Olynthus report
This man's conflict with his father was mediated by the elderly Damaratus of Corinth and he looked to Ada of Caria as a mother figure in part because his own mother was an orgiastic snake-worshipping Dyoniasc who had ordered the incineration of his half-sister Europa. Callisthenes of Olynthus reported he was raised by the nurse Lanike, who was sister of the man who would save him from an attack by Spithridates, Cleitus the Black. He would marry the daughter of Oxyartes, (*) Roxana, and his close friends included Cassander, Ptolemy, and Hephaestion, as well as his horse Bucephalus. For 10 points, name this conqueror who won famous victories at the Granicus River and Issus.
This man's conflict with his father was mediated by the elderly Damaratus of Corinth and he looked to Ada of Caria as a mother figure in part because his own mother was an orgiastic snake-worshipping Dyoniasc who had ordered the incineration of his half-sister Europa.
{Alexander the Great}