Alexander Almost Died — Then He Cut the Gordian Knot

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]Persians routed.

[00:00:01]Alexander's first battle on Asian soil won by aggression so extreme [music] that the enemy's strategy collapsed before it could function.

[00:00:10]But Granicus was just the opening. At Gordium, in what is now central [music] Turkey, Alexander encountered a legend.

[00:00:17]An ancient wagon lashed to a post with a knot of cornel bark so complex, so deliberately [music] impossible, that no one had undone it in centuries.

[00:00:27]The prophecy was simple. Whoever unraveled the Gordian [music] knot would rule all of Asia.