Among Alexander's most notable built works are the Eishin Campus near Tokyo ( the building process of which is soon to be outlined in his forthcoming book Battle ); the West Dean Visitors Centre in West Sussex, England ; the Julian Street Inn ( a homeless shelter ) in San Jose, California ( both described in Nature of Order ); the Martinez House ( an experimental house in Martinez, California made of lightweight concrete ); the low-cost housing in Mexicali, Mexico ( described in The Production of Houses ); and several private houses ( described and illustrated in " The Nature of Order ").

Michael Mehaffy wrote an introductory essay on Christopher Alexander's built work in the online publication " Katarxis 3 ", which includes a gallery of Alexander's major built projects to date ( September 2004 ).

Seleucus I Nicator, one of Alexander's Diadochi, founded the Seleucid Empire and built his capital Seleucia on the Tigris on the western bank of the river opposite Opis.

The Hellenistic period, following Alexander's conquests, continued and built upon this knowledge.

Christian legends speak of the Caspian Gates ( Gates of Alexander ), also known as Alexander's wall, built by Alexander the Great in the Caucasus mountains.

On the eve of the battle of Issus ( 333BCE ), Alexander's biographers say, Alexander the Great was shown what the locals purported to be the tomb of Sardanapalus at Anchialus in Cilicia, with a relief carving of the king clapping his hands over his head and an inscription that the locals translated for him as " Sardanapalus, son of Anakyndaraxes, built Anchialus and Tarsus in a single day ; stranger, eat, drink and make love, as other human things are not worth this " ( signifying the clap of the hands ).

The second fortress was built in stone by Alexander's son Dmitry Alexandrovich in 1280.

The present hall was built between 1827 and 1840 on the site of the ancient manor house, by Alexander's son the 7th Earl Balcarres who designed and supervised its construction whilst living in a cottage in the grounds.

It is not clear from the writings of Alexander's historians whether the settlement of Mithankot existed at that time, it had a different name or if a new city was ever built at all.

The work is a discussion of ethical issues based on Aristotle, and contains responses to questions and problems deriving from Alexander's school.

Several of Alexander's works were published in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495 – 1498 ; his De Fato and De Anima were printed along with the works of Themistius at Venice ( 1534 ); the former work, which has been translated into Latin by Grotius and also by Schulthess, was edited by J. C. Orelli, Zürich, 1824 ; and his commentaries on the Metaphysica by H. Bonitz, Berlin, 1847.

He rated Alexander's work highly enough to base the character of the doctor who saves the protagonist in ' Eyeless in Gaza ' ( an experimental form of autobiographical work ) on F. M.

Since Alexander's work in the field came at the turn of the century, his ideas influenced many originators in the field of mind-body improvement.

The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe ( 2003-4 ), which includes The Phenomenon of Life, The Process of Creating Life, A Vision of a Living World and The Luminous Ground, is Alexander's latest, and most comprehensive and elaborate work.

Alexander's work has widely influenced architects ; those that acknowledge his influence include Sarah Susanka, among others.

Will Wright wrote that Alexander's work was influential in the origin of The Sims computer game, and in his later game Spore.

For instance, in Christopher Alexander's work, bus stops and waiting rooms in a surgery center are both part of the context for the pattern " A PLACE TO WAIT ".

The now lost history of Alexander's campaigns by the diadoch Ptolemy I ( 367 – 283 BC ) may represent the first historical work composed by a ruler.

Miller argues that Alexander's suggestion in 1969 that the reporter became confused, and introduced elements from other plays is unlikely, and instead suggests an adapter at work ( whom he refers to as the ' compiler '), writing in the romantic comedy tradition ; " the most economic explanation of indebtedness is that whoever compiled A Shrew borrowed the lines from Shakespeare's The Shrew, or a version of it, and adapted them.

Renault's work focuses on Alexander's character, motivations, strengths and weaknesses.

Nevertheless, Arrian's work gives a reasonably full account of Alexander's life during the campaign, and in his personal assessment of Alexander he steers a judicious course between flattery and condemnation.

One of Alexander's hobbies was mechanics and he employed nearly all his spare time in his workshop where he encouraged his youngest son to work with him in all sorts of materials.

Julius Rufinianus, in his work on the same subject expressly states that Aquila Romanus, in his Latin treatise De Figuris Sententiarum et Elocutionis, took his materials from Alexander's work.

Alexander's work describes a process of decomposition, in which the designer has a problem ( perhaps a commercial assignment ), selects a solution, then discovers new, smaller problems resulting from the larger solution.

As it is recursive, it is not quite so direct as Alexander's original matrix method ; on the other hand, parts of the work done for one knot will apply to others.

Although Goehr's personal relationship to his father was not unproblematic, Walter Goehr had a determining influence on his son via his work as a conductor: the composers whose work Walter championed — Arnold Schoenberg, Claudio Monteverdi, Modest Mussorgsky, Olivier Messiaen — feature as a red-thread throughout Alexander's output.

Arrian was able to use sources which are now lost, such as the contemporary works by Callisthenes ( the nephew of Alexander's tutor Aristotle ), Onesicritus, Nearchus, and Aristobulus, and the slightly later work of Cleitarchus.

The song's unique sunny production sound became a template for much of Alexander's future production work.

English philosopher Samuel Alexander's debt to Wordsworth and Meredith is a recent interesting example, as also A. N. Whitehead's understanding of the English romantics, chiefly Shelley and Wordsworth.

A widespread tradition in antiquity suspected Aristotle of playing a role in Alexander's death, but there is little evidence for this.

" The king referred to is Alexander's father, Malcolm III, and Domnall was Alexander's half brother.

It is unlikely that Alexander wrote all of the Quaestiones, some may be Alexander's own explanations, while others may be exercises by his students.

Alexander's band, an optical phenomenon, is named after him.

Aristotle is also quite frequently quoted in Alexander's works.

While still a deacon under Alexander's care, he seems to have been brought for a while into close relations with some of the solitaries of the Egyptian desert, and in particular with the Anthony the Great, whose life he is said to have written.

Alexander is the great horn, which is then succeeded by Alexander's half brother Philip and three of his generals.

Though Alexander's body had a missing finger and a different appearance from Lex at the time of his death, 52 editor Stephen Wacker has confirmed that the body found in Gotham is indeed Alex, and that Luthor had it altered before the police discovered it.

While Greek astronomy — thanks to Alexander's conquests — probably influenced Indian learning, to the point of introducing trigonometry, it seems to be the case that Indian mathematics is otherwise an indigenous tradition ; in particular, there is no evidence that Euclid's Elements reached India before the 18th century.

Modern day Pakistan was conquered by Chandragupta Maurya, who overthrew the powerful Nanda Dynasty of Magadha and established Maurya empire: He conquered the trans-Indus region to the west, which was under Macedonian rule-annexing Balochistan, south eastern parts of Iran and much of what is now Afghanistan, including the modern Herat and Kandahar provinces-and then defeated the invasion led by Seleucus I, a Greek general from Alexander's army.

Following Alexander's brief occupation, the Hellenistic successor states of the Seleucids and Greco-Bactrians controlled the area for another 200 years in what is known as the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom.

Alexander the Great is reputed to have crucified 2000 survivors from his siege of the Phoenician city of Tyre, as well as the doctor who unsuccessfully treated Alexander's friend Hephaestion.

Aloys Hirt supposes that the name of the painter of Alexander's marriage, whom Lucian praises so highly, as Aetion, is a corruption of Echion.

Sallustius ' daughter, as well Alexander's wife, Sallustia Orbiana, is exiled in Libya.

Further convoluting the case is the possible role of propaganda in the surviving accounts: Attalus was executed in Alexander's consolidation of power after the murder ; one might wonder if his enrollment among the conspirators was not for the effect of introducing political expediency in an otherwise messy purge ( Attalus had publicly declared his hope that Alexander would not succeed Philip, but rather that a son of his own niece Eurydice, recently married to Philip and brutally murdered by Olympias after Philip's death, would gain the throne of Macedon ).

The land of Illyria is the setting for William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Jean-Paul Sartre's Les Mains Sales and in Lloyd Alexander's The Illyrian Adventure.

" Alexander's Ragtime Band " is the name of a song by Irving Berlin.