According to an ancient Greek legend, oracles told the people of Phrygia that the next person who came into town riding in an ox cart would ... intricate knot that became known as a Gordian Knot.

This knot was a nightmarish tangle of wrist-thick cornel bark that was twisted around an ox cart’s yoke and impossible to unfasten. The ox cart had belonged to the ancient king Gordias, who, himself a ...

His son tied the cart with an intricate knot to a post and declared that any man who can unravel the knot would become ruler of all of Asia. In 333 B.C., Alexander of Macedonia was passing by and ...

In Greek legend the challenge faced by Alexander the Great in 333 BC was to untie the famous Gordian Knot, which tied a mystical ox-cart to a post for many years in the ... Ancient history and ...

When a leader solves a problem with bold action, it’s often referred to as cutting the Gordian knot. This comes from a legend about Alexander the Great reaching the city of Gordium, whose ancient ...

The Gordian knot is an ancient legend, mainly associated with Alexander the Great: A rope attached to an oxcart became so hopelessly entangled that Alexander, accepting the challenge to unravel ...