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Encounter to Remember   Aristotle watching Cassander, Hephaestion, Ptolemy, and Lysimachus attempted to untie the knot as they could not find the end to the knot to unbind it. It was the turn of Alexander to untie the knot. He sliced it in half with a stroke of his sword, producing the required ends (the so-called "Alexandrian solution") and an oracle further prophesied that the one to untie the knot would become the king of Asia. Alexander unfastened it quite easily by removing the pin which secured the yoke to the pole of the chariot, then pulling out the yoke itself." That night there was a violent thunderstorm. Alexander's prophet Aristander took this as a sign that Zeus was pleased and would grant Alexander many victories. .....Read Quest of Olympias....Sivkishen, Author Enter the description here.