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Gordian knot

In Greek mythology, the knot tied by King Gordius of Phrygia that - so an oracle revealed - could be unravelled only by the future conqueror of Asia. According to tradition, Alexander the Great, unable to untie it, cut it with his sword in 334 BC.



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