Ptolemy Philometor, who was Alexander's father-in-law, went over to his side, and Alexander was defeated in the battle of Antioch ( 145 BC ) in Syria, sometimes known as the battle of the Oenoparus.

Guards watched throughout the night, except at Alexander's bedchamber, which was at the top of a ladder with a ferocious chained dog guarding the door.

His mother's chaplain and hagiographer Thurgot was named Bishop of Saint Andrews ( or Cell Rígmonaid ) in 1107, presumably by Alexander's order.

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

Alexander's mother also opposed the marriage and was subsequently banished from the kingdom.

After Alexander's death, his strong realm was plunged into a period of darkness that would eventually lead to war with England.

By the 6th century Alexander's commentaries on Aristotle were considered so useful that he was referred to as " the commentator " ().

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.

It was the rumor of Alexander's death that triggered the assassination of Elagabalus and his mother.

As emperor, Alexander's peace time reign was prosperous.

Alexander's father, Marcus Julius Gessius Marcianus was a Syrian Promagistrate.

Alexander's maternal great-aunt was empress Julia Domna ( also Maesa's younger sister ) and his great-uncle in marriage was emperor Lucius Septimius Severus.

In his writing he makes mention of a moment when Alexander's secondary naval commander, Onesicritus, was reading the Amazon passage of his Alexander history to King Lysimachus of Thrace who was on the original expedition: the king smiled at him and said " And where was I, then?

It was one of four dynasties established by Alexander's successors, the others being the Seleucid dynasty, Ptolemaic dynasty and Attalid dynasty.

For his contemporaries, however, Alexander's fame was his inexhaustible interest in disputation.

The effectiveness of this combined-arms system was most dramatically demonstrated in Alexander's conquest of Persia, Bactria, and northwestern India.

Alexander's Notes on the Synthesis of Form was required reading for researchers in computer science throughout the 1960s.

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

As Alexander's Feast ( 1736 ) was well received, Handel made a transition to English choral works.

After Alexander's death, his loosely connected empire was divided.

He worked in Alexander's department store in Valley Stream as well.

Vornado, a realty trust firm ( which itself in a previous form was another discount department store chain, Two Guys ), bought a controlling share of Alexander's at bargain prices and refocused the company on development of its land holdings.

Located at 731 Lexington Avenue, the building occupies the same block where Alexander's department store once stood.

Construction on Bloomberg Tower began in 2001, three years after the vacant Alexander's department store was demolished.

Alexander's ' Paramus, New Jersey store, located at the crossing of New Jersey Routes 4 and 17 near Garden State Plaza, was famous for a mural painted for the store by Polish artist Stefan Knapp.

After Alexander's went out of business in 1992, the mural remained on the closed store until 1996.

In their 1928 edition of the play for the New Shakespeare, Arthur Quiller-Couch and John Dover Wilson wholeheartedly supported Alexander's theory, which has remained popular ever since.

Antoon's 1990 production at the New York Shakespeare Festival, starring Morgan Freeman and Tracey Ullman, which was set in the old west ; Bill Alexander's 1992 RSC production at the Barbican, starring Anton Lesser and Amanda Harris, in which the Induction was rewritten in modern language, and the play-within-the-play featured actors carrying scripts and continually forgetting lines ; Delia Taylor's 1999 production at the Clark Street Playhouse, which featured an all female cast, with Diane Manning as Petruchio and Elizabeth Perotti as Katherina ; Phyllida Lloyd's 2003 production at the Globe, again with an all female cast, starring Janet McTeer as Petruchio and Kathryn Hunter as Katherina ; Gregory Doran's 2003 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, where the play was presented with Fletcher's The Tamer Tamed as a two-part piece, with Jasper Britton and Alexandra Gilbreath ( playing both Katherina in The Shrew and Maria ( Petruchio's second wife ) in The Tamer Tamed ); Edward Hall's 2006 Propeller Company production at the Courtyard Theatre as part of the RSC's presentation of the Complete Works, featuring an all-male cast, with Dugald Bruce Lockhart as Petruchio and Simon Scardifield as Katherina ; and Conall Morrison's 2008 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Stephen Boxer and Michelle Gomez.

One of the earliest works in which the term showed up was Jeffrey Alexander's chapter " The New Theoretical Movement " in NJ Smelser's " Handbook of Sociology " ( 1988 ).

As of 2010, Fangoria's publishing office is located just north of New York City's Times Square, with Alexander's satellite office in Toronto, Ontario.

: For Gregg Alexander's releases with the New Radicals, see New Radicals ' discography

The marriage took place at Alexander's country seat, “ The Buildings ,” near Basking Ridge, New Jersey, which was designed to imitate the residence of an English nobleman, with all the appointments of an English country seat.

The American publisher New Directions first issued Lloyd Alexander's translation in 1949 as part of its New Classics library ; a New Directions paperback edition was introduced in 1959.

Alexander's ' two most famous locations, perhaps, were at the World Trade Center Mall and in Paramus, New Jersey.

The family is a success and have soon hit the top, thrilling audiences at New York's famed Hippodrome Theatre with an extravagant multi-themed performance of " Alexander's Ragtime Band " with each family member being featured in their own segment in addition to the ensemble sections which bookend the piece.

Some sources, including Alexander's obituary in the New York Times, incorrectly credit him as winner of the NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1928.

Due to Alexander's conquest, Hellenism was very prominent during the New Testament period.

The case of Thurgot's would-be successor Eadmer shows that Alexander's wishes were not always accepted by the religious community, perhaps because Eadmer had the backing of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Ralph d ' Escures, rather than Thurstan of York.

The area of Karachi was known to the ancient Greeks by many names: Krokola, the place where Alexander the Great camped to prepare a fleet for Babylonia after his campaign in the Indus Valley ; ' Morontobara ' ( probably Manora island near Karachi harbour ), from whence Alexander's admiral Nearchus set sail ; and Barbarikon, a port of the Bactrian kingdom.

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.

Several other of Alexander's generals ( known together as the Diadochi ( Latin ; original Greek Διάδοχοι / Diadokhoi " successors ")) later conspired to remove Antigonus, and after defeating him the area was given to Thessalian general Lysimachus ( Lysimakhos ) ( circa 355 BC-281 BC ) in 301 BC as his share of the lands.

Alexander's conquests spread classical concepts about the divine, the afterlife, and much else across the eastern Mediterranean area.

After Alexander's death in 323 BC, the area came under control of the Seleucid Empire, which gave the region to the Mauryan Dynasty of India in 305 BC.

Alexander's association with the Avars gave origin to legend widespread in the area in the 19th century, according to which Imam Shamil, the future leader of Caucasian resistance to the Russian expansion, was his natural son.

Following Alexander's brief occupation, the successor state of the Seleucid Empire controlled the area until 305 BCE when they gave south of the Hindu Kush to the Indian Maurya Empire as part of an alliance treaty.

From the area of Phoenicia, only Tyre resisted Alexander's control, and so he undertook a siege.

In addition, in the entrance hall to the Art Museum of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, a series of Alexander's murals entitled " Apotheosis of Pittsburgh " ( 1905 – 1907 ) covers the walls of the three-storey atrium area.

Between the two bows lies an area of unlit sky referred to as Alexander's band.

Alexander's band is the area between the primary and secondary rainbows.