Avoiding Doomsday: Untying the Gordian Knot

摘要

Legend has it that in 333 BC Alexander the Great marched his army into the Phrygian capital of Gordium in modern-day Turkey. As he entered the city, he came across an ancient wagon with its yoke tied with what historians have described as a knot so complex that it was impossible for it to be undone. It is reported that an oracle had declared that anyone who could untie the knot would become the ruler of all Asia.