The culture of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome had considerable impact on development of universal culture, literature, poetry. Works of antique writers, existing in centuries, were repeatedly translated into other languages.
Where there were myth events
The area where events of the poetical myth about zamudrenny knot are developed, in the ancient time was called Phrygia. Now it is the western and central territory of Turkey. The ancient city of Gordion was the capital of once powerful Phrygian kingdom in Asia Minor. The well-known name Gordy was born by many Phrygian tsars therefore it is supposed that the generalized character of governors of the ancient kingdom appears in the myth.
In the kingdom the cattle breeding and agriculture, many myths directly was very developed and indirectly indicate their special place in activity of the population. So the ordinary peasant with two oxen was the first tsar of the kingdom allegedly, and for murder or theft of the last the death penalty was assumed. It is possible to assume that in the territory of Phrygia there were gold deposits. Legends and legends on Midas's gift hardly appeared from scratch.
Legend of a Gordian knot
There is a legend that Phrygian priests of the temple of Zeus allegedly foretold that the first person who entered their city will become their tsar. Not who other as the farmer Gordy who will be included into Ancient Greek myths as the wise governor and the adoptive father of not less mythical Midas subsequently became this person.
Gordian knot call very difficult and tangled situation.
Gordy, to immortalize this event, tied the well-known chariot to an altar in Zeus's temple, according to priests, very smart knot. Prediction was born that the one who will manage to untangle knot will rule the world. However, apparently, the power over Phrygia was mentioned. As the number of persons interested to untangle this small knot was high, it is necessary only to guess.
What was connected by a Gordian knot
According to a legend, intricate of cornel bark it was knotted dyshlo with a yoke of the chariot of the tsar Gordiya. Most of writers specify that the knot was so difficult that it was impossible to untangle it, and the resolute commander Alexander of Macedon snatched out a sharp sword and simply split it.
""To cut the Gordian knot"" - to solve a difficult problem.
However, according to the engineer and the architect of the Macedonian army - Aristobulus, Alexander just took out a hook from the front end of a dyshl on which, actually, and the jugular belt was fixed. On the basis of this myth in which validity ancient unconditionally believed there was a phraseological unit of the same name. ""To cut the Gordian knot"" figuratively means resolute actions in an unusual situation.