Monday, February 27, 2017

Why King Arthur was based on Alexander the Great



Why King Arthur was based on Alexander the Great
Copyright © 2017 Michael J. Costa, All rights reserved.

Humanity likes to base fantasy characters on real people, to give them credibility.  The stories of Alexander the Great are retold as King Arthur – the sword Excalibur in the Stone was Alexander’s sword cutting the Gordian Knot, which made him King of Asia (or in Arthur’s case, King Arthur).  The Knights of the Round Table are the Diadochi (Alexander’s Generals), as Knights are mounted warriors on horseback.  I remembered this in a previous life as President Kennedy, who identified with King Arthur, because Alexander was a distant previous incarnation.  Alexander believed in human Fantasy literature, so he visited the City of Troy from the Trojan War, to wear the Armor of Achilles, his favorite hero of the Iliad (the book he considered his religion) as written by the Greek, Homer.  So it is of little importance that King Arthur is a fantasy reproduction of Alexander the Great. 

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