Alexander the Great founded the city Alexandria, of his namesake.
On the advice of his architects, Alexander was about to measure out and enclose a city elsewhere, when during the night, he saw an astounding vision. He thought he saw a man with exceptionally white hair and a revered appearance remaining adjacent to him and talking these lines. “Then there is an island in a stormy sea in front of Egypt. They call it Pharos.” This vision was unusual because this wasn’t a god.
No Greek god was portrayed in those terms. It was a revered elderly person. I'd emphatically recommend this was Homer appearing to him. Homer, whom Alexander read each night—he had the Iliad under his pillow—appeared to him and presented to him two lines from the Odyssey, depicting the area of Pharos.
Alexander rose without a moment's delay and went to Pharos, which around then was an island a little over the Canopic mouth of the Nile, yet which has now been joined to the terrain by a thoroughfare. At the point when he showed up, he saw that the site was famously appropriate—it is a segment of land like a genuinely expansive isthmus, running between an enormous tidal pond and the ocean, which ends in the extraordinary harbor—and he shouted that Homer, who was commendable in different regards, was likewise an incredible draftsman.
Shortly after his arrival, he went to lay out the external circumference of the city, which is what the founder of a city will always do. Since there was no chalk available, he used barley meal to describe a rounded area on the dark soil, to whose inner arc straight lines succeeded. Alexander’s grid plan of the city produced a figure that is called in Greek a chlamys, a Macedonian military cloak shaped like a trapezoid.
The king was delighted with the plan yet out of nowhere a vast multitude of birds flew from the river and lagoon onto the site like clouds. Nothing was left of the barley meal after the flying creatures descended and ate. Alexander was quite disturbed by the sign, however his seers prompted him there was nothing to fear. In their view, the city he was establishing would have large amounts of assets and would continue men from each country. He trained his overseers to proceed with the work.
