Nodus Gordianus
Nodus Gordianus vel Gordius fuit nodus Gordii in Phrygia, quem Alexander Magnus, cum dissolvere non posset, aut gladio secuit aut (sicut Aristobulus scripserat) claviculam extraxit. Historiam narrant Arrianus, Plutarchus, Q. Curtius, Iustinus.

Notae

Fontes 
 Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 2.3 (Aristobulo De rebus Alexandri Magni citato)
 Plutarchus, Vita Alexandri 18 (Aristobulo De rebus Alexandri Magni citato)
 Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae 3.1.14-18
 Iustinus, Epitoma Historiarum Philippicarum Pompei Trogi 11.7.15-16

Bibliographia 
 Brendan Burke, "Anatolian Origins of the Gordian Knot Legend" in Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies vol. 42 (2001) pp. 255–261
 Peter Frei, "Der Wagen von Gordion" in Museum Helveticum vol. 29 (1972) pp. 110–123
  vol. 2 "Kommentar" (1930) p. 511
 Lynn E. Roller, "Midas and the Gordian Knot" in Classical Antiquity vol. 3 (1984) pp. 256–271
 Rudolf Schubert, Beiträge zur Kritik der Alexanderhistoriker (Lipsiae: Dieterich, 1922) p. 1 ff.
 
 Michael Zahrnt, "Alexander in Gordion und die Entstehung einer Legende" in Stephanie Böhm, Klaus Valtin von Eickstedt, edd., Ithake. Festschrift für Jörg Schäfer zum 75. Geburtstag am 25. April 2001 (Würzburg: Ergon, 2001) pp. 203–206

Nexus externi 
 Arrianus, De Expeditione Alexandri, liber secundus 

Alexander Magnus
333 a.C.n.
Gordium
Locutiones Latinae
Metaphorae
Problemata