Zephyrus ( el, Ζέφυρος), according to the apocryphal ''
Letter to Aristotle'' 14, was the soldier, who brought
Alexander the Great
Alexander III of Macedon ( grc, Ἀλέξανδρος, Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He succeeded his father Philip II to ...
a helmet full of water when the army was suffering greatly in the
Gedrosian desert (325 BC). The famous story of how Alexander poured the water into the ground in front of the army is told by a number of sources but the name
Zephyrus (''western wind'') appears to have been invented.
References
*''Who's who in the age of Alexander the Great''
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4th-century BC people
Soldiers of Alexander the Great