Andromeda

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An oracle told the people of Phrygia to name the next person to enter the kingdom's capital Telmissus with an ox-cart as their King, and they crowned a man named Gordias. His ox-cart was dedicated to the gods, and tied with an intricate knot of cornel bark to a post. A later oracle said that whoever could untie the knot would become king of Asia. King Alexander the Great of Macedon defeated the Persians at the battle of Gordium, and attempted to untie the knot. There are several versions of his solution, firstly, that he simply drew his sword and severed the knot, or more ingeniously, that he pulled out the cross piece that the cart was tied to and the knot unraveled itself. Either way, the Gordian Knot has come to mean a seemingly impossible task which is solved by a bold stroke.