Syrian
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Syrian is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between March 08, 2022 and September 19, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “or a Syrian”; “In the Syrian version, it took 300 men to drag its body”. It most often appears alongside Russia, 15th century Sicilian manuscript, Achilles.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: March 08, 2022
- Last seen: September 19, 2023
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- Russia (2 shared issues)
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- 15th century Sicilian manuscript (1 shared issues)
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- Achilles (1 shared issues)
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- Afghan (1 shared issues)
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- Agrimardio (1 shared issues)
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- Aigeis (1 shared issues)
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- Alans (1 shared issues)
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- Alexander (1 shared issues)
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- Alexander Romance (1 shared issues)
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- Alexander the Great (1 shared issues)
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- Alexandria (1 shared issues)
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- Alfred (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
I don’t think Ukraine proves that “history has restarted” or “the Pax Americana was a paper tiger” or anything of the sort. These kinds of local conflicts were always allowed. Just ask an Iraqi. Or a Chechen, or an Afghan, or a Syrian, or a Bosnian, or a Crimean, or a Tigrayan or go back and ask the Iraqi a second time.
His first night east of India, he was attacked by a triceratops. At least this is how I interpret the odontotyrannus (“tooth-tyrant”), a three-horned monster bigger than an elephant that killed 26 Macedonian warriors. In the Syrian version, it took 300 men to drag its body out of a river; in the Armenian version, 1,300.
There is no single Alexander Romance. Every culture from Ethiopia to Russia added their own bits and adapted it to their own needs. The Persian version changes things around so that Alexander is secretly the descendant of the rightful Shah of Persia; the Jewish version adds bits about how Alexander knelt before the High Priest of Jerusalem and said that the LORD was the one true God. Someone from Syria added the bits about Gog and Magog; nobody knows who added the parts with the 36-foot-tall giants, the three-eyed lions, the sphere-people, or the headless men. This makes it hard to review “the” Alexander Romance - some historians describe it as more of a genre than a single story.