Nectanebo, father of Alexander
The Alexander Romance tells, some six centuries later, that the last pharaoh, the magician Nectanebo, fled to Macedon, read Olympias's stars and fathered Alexander in the guise of the god Ammon, and that the city's outline, marked in barley meal, was eaten by birds as an omen of plenty.
Told by The Alexander Romance, c. 300 CE (recension A), some six centuries later
What the evidence supports
Alexander founded the city in 331 BCE (Arrian 3.1–2). Arrian and Plutarch also tell the barley-meal omen, as a story; Nectanebo's fatherhood is romance.
Sources (2)
- Pseudo-Callisthenes, Alexander Romance 1.1–14, 1.30–33
- Arrian, Anabasis 3.2.1–2