Volga Muslims variously claim that either Socrates or this ruler were the ancestors of the Kipchak chieftain Bachman Khan. In the Epic of Sundiata, this ruler is referred to as “a king of gold and silver” and Sundiata is most commonly compared to him. The Epic of (15[1])Sundiata also claims that descendants of this man founded (15[1])the Cissé dynasty, which founded the Ghana Empire. Legendarily, (-5[1])this ruler built the Caspian (*) Gates to keep out (15[1])Gog (15[1]10[2])and Magog, (10[2])a (-5[1])tale (10[2])related in the (10[1])Quran, where this ruler is (10[1])referred to (10[1])as Dhū al-Qarnayn. The subject (10[1])of a “romance” written by (10[1])Pseudo-Callisthenes, a young Chandragupta Maurya supposedly met this (10[1])ruler at Taxila during his conquest of Punjab. For 10 points, (10[1])name (10[1])this ruler mythologized across three continents after his conquest of the (10[1])Achaemenid Empire. ■END■