Thessalonike reaction after Alexander's death

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They kept the body of Alexander in that place twelve days, and each day they made elegies and lamentations and weeping over him afresh.
Grief stricken, Thessalonike, that half sister and the dearest one of Alexander , who he loved more than the real one, jumped into the sea to kill herself. But she was saved by the locals. Later she tried to kill herself with a knife. Next morning she tried to take poision.

Never knew about this sister...


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Posted: 7 years ago
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I found this..

There exists a popular Greek legend which talks about a mermaid who lived in the Aegean for hundreds of years who was thought to be Thessalonike. The legend states that Alexander, in his quest for the Fountain of Immortality, retrieved with great exertion a flask of immortal water with which he bathed his sister's hair. When Alexander died his grief-stricken sister attempted to end her life by jumping into the sea. Instead of drowning, however, she became a mermaid passing judgment on mariners throughout the centuries and across the seven seas. To the sailors who encountered her she would always pose the same question: "Is Alexander the king alive?" (Greek: ?), to which the correct answer would be "He lives and reigns and conquers the world" (Greek: , !). Given this answer she would allow the ship and her crew to sail safely away in calm seas. Any other answer would transform her into the raging Gorgon, bent on sending the ship and every sailor on board to the bottom.
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Posted: 7 years ago
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obviously mermaid one is a mythology...but so there was a half sister also...and she tried to kill herself

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