Supported the belief that he was the Greek gos Zeus's son. - Robin Lane Fox

It was the Delphi of the Greek East and as a Hellene, not as Pharaoh, Alexander would be curious...

To his ancestors (to a Persian's ancestors) Macedonians were only known as 'yona takabara', the 'Greeks who wear shields on their heads', an allusion to their broad-brimmed hats.

No man, and only one hero, had been called invincible before him, and then only by a poet, but the hero was Heracles, ancestor of the Macedonian kings.