In " Son of God, " the first of four one-hour episodes, Alexander is tracked as he heads through Turkey, cuts the Gordian knot, defeats the Persian king Darius at Issus and marches triumphantly through Lebanon and Palestine before founding Alexandria, the first of 30 cities that carried his name.
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The original name of the town is unknown, Eudoxias being the name given to it in honour either of the mother or of the daughter of Theodosius II . It was perhaps Gordion, where Alexander the Great cut the Gordian knot, and stood perhaps at the modern Y�rme, in the vilayet of Angora.
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In an essay in January for the Hoover Institution, E . D . Hirsch Jr ., founder of Core Knowledge, a whole-school reform model that re-envisions curriculum and structure, wrote that the continuing debate over class-size reduction as well as over whole-school reforms showed that even the most rigorously designed experiments would never cut the Gordian knots.
