The name of the above poster put me in mind of this: popular bodies of legendary stories about Alexander the Great abounded after Pseudo-Callisthenes wrote a text in Greek about his adventures. It's not based on the classical historical materials about Alexander, and recounts mythological and fantastic adventures as he and his armies journey into the East (think pre-modern Star Trek: Next Generation). Medieval readers read this stuff ravenously. Anyway, in those accounts, Alexander is consistently depicted as a fairly little guy, and his enemies often insult him by calling him a dwarf. While he's not a bad fighter, he's more famously praised for his trickiness and rapacious wit. And his two eyes are of different colors. Hmm...remind you of anyone?
