Alexander Romance

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Armenian illuminated manuscript of the 14th century

The Alexander Romance is an account of the life and exploits of Alexander the Great. The Romance describes Alexander the Great from his birth, to his succession of the throne of Macedon, his conquests including that of the Persian Empire, and finally his death. Although constructed around an historical core, the romance is mostly fantastical, including many miraculous tales and encounters with mythical creatures such as sirens or centaurs.[1]

It was widely copied and translated, accruing various legends and fantastical elements at different stages. The original version was composed in Ancient Greek some time before 338 CE, when a Latin translation was made, although the exact date is unknown. Some manuscripts pseudonymously attribute the texts authorship to Alexander's court historian Callisthenes, and so the author is commonly called Pseudo-Callisthenes.

In premodern times, the Alexander Romance underwent more than 100 translations, elaborations, and derivations in 25 languages, including almost all European vernaculars as well as in every language from the Islamicized regions of Asia and Africa, from Mali to Malaysia.[2] Some of the more notable translations were made into Coptic, Ge'ez, Middle Persian, Byzantine Greek, Arabic, Persian, Armenian, Syriac, and Hebrew. Owing to the great variety of distinct works derived from the original Greek romance, the "Alexander romance" is sometimes treated as a literary genre, instead of a single work.[3]

Plot[edit]

Nectanebo II, the last Pharaoh of Egypt, foresees that his kingdom will fall to the Persians and so flees to the Macedonian court. In his time there, he falls in love with Olympias, the wife of Philip II of Macedon. She becomes pregnant but Philip's suspicions are allayed by a magic sea-hawk that Nectanebo sends to him in a dream. Alexander is born from this pregnancy, but while he is growing up he kills Nectanebo, who reveals Alexander's paternity as he dies. Alexander begins to be educated by Aristotle and competes in the Olympics.[4]

After Philip dies, Alexander begins his campaigns into Asia, although the story is written in a confused manner with respect to the order and location of the campaigns. Once he reaches Egypt, an oracle of the god Amun instructs him where to go to create the city that will become Alexandria. The march into Asia continues and Alexander conquers Tyre. He begins exchanging letters with the Persian emperor Darius III, though the story now delves into more campaigns in Greece. The Persian march resumes and eventually Alexander conquers the Persians. He marries Roxane, the daughter of Darius, and writes letters to Olympias describing all he saw and his adventures during his conquests, including his wandering through the Land of Darkness, search for the Water of Life, and more.[4]

Next, he proceeds to conquer India from which he writes letters to Aristotle, though he also receives an omen about his coming death in this time. He visits the temples of the sun and moon, and makes the Amazons his subjects. During his return, as he reaches Babylonia, he meets the son of Antipater (the figure ruling Macedonia in Alexander's stead during the journeys of the latter) who was sent to poison Alexander. The conspiracy succeeds, and Alexander begins to die, though he names the rulers who will control the provinces of his empire after he is gone before ultimately succumbing to the poison. Ptolemy I Soter receives his body in the Egyptian city of Memphis where the priests order it to be sent to Alexandria, the greatest city he had built during his march. The work concludes by providing a list of all the cities that Alexander founded.[4]

Themes[edit]

Gates of Alexander[edit]

The Darial Gorge before 1906

The Romance locates the Gates of Alexander between two mountains called the "Breasts of the North" (Greek: Μαζοί Βορρά[5]). The mountains are initially 18 feet apart and the pass is rather wide, but Alexander's prayers to God causes the mountains to draw nearer, thus narrowing the pass. There he builds the Caspian Gates out of bronze, coating them with fast-sticking oil. The gates enclosed twenty-two nations and their monarchs, including Gog and Magog (therein called "Goth and Magoth"). The geographic location of these mountains is rather vague, described as a 50-day march away northwards after Alexander put to flight his Belsyrian enemies (the Bebrykes,[6] of Bithynia in modern-day North Turkey).[7][8]

Horns of Alexander[edit]

In the α recension of the Alexander Romance, Alexander's father is an Egyptian priest named Nectanebo who sports a set of ram horns. After his death, Alexander is described as "the horned king" (βασιλέα κερασφόρον) by an oracle instructing Ptolemy, a general of Alexander, on where to bury him. This statement was repeated in the Armenian recension of the Alexander Romance in the 5th century.[9] The use of the horned motif, representing the horns of Zeus Ammon to visualize Alexander stems from much earlier, originally in coinage depicting Alexander by his immediate successors Ptolemy I Soter of Egypt and more prominently the king of Thrace Lysimachus were the earliest produce coinage of Alexander with the rams horns.[10][11] The motif would be carried over into later Alexander legends, such as the Armenian translation of α and the Syriac Alexander Legend.[12]

Commentaries[edit]

The first commentary to the Romance was a German work titled Der griechische Alexanderroman, published by Adolf Ausfeld in 1907. In 2017, a commentary of the entire Alexander Romance was published in English by Krzysztof Nawotka.[13]

Translations[edit]

The first modern English translation of the Romance was produced by E.H. Haight in 1955. The major modern English translation of the Romance is that of Richard Stoneman in 1991. Significant French translations include those of Tallet-Bonvalot in 1994, and Bounoure & Serret in 2004. An Italian translation was produced by Franco in 2001. In 2010, a Polish translation was published by Krzysztof Nawotka.[14]

Versions of the Romance[edit]

Throughout classical antiquity and the Middle Ages, the Romance experienced numerous expansions and revisions exhibiting a variability unknown for more formal literary forms. Distinctively, and unlike other texts, none of the recensions (including in Greek) of the Romance can be considered canonical. Furthermore, translations were not merely so but were also typically variant versions of the text.[15]

In Europe, the Alexander Romance was forgotten until Leo the Archpriest discovered a Greek copy in Constantinople while he was on a diplomatic missions. He produced a translation into Latin titled the Nativitas et historia Alexandri Magni regis, which became the basis of the far more successful and expanded version known as the Historia de Proeliis, which went through three recensions between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries and made Alexander a household name throughout the Middle Ages,[16] being translated more times in the next three centuries than any other text except for the Gospels.[17] Another very popular Latin version was the Alexandreis of Walter of Châtillon.[18]

Translations would subsequently be made into all the major languages of Europe as versions of the Alexander romance became the most popular form of medieval European literature after the Bible,[19] such as Old French (12th century),[20] Middle Scots (The Buik of Alexander, 13th century),[21] Italian,[22] Spanish (the Libro de Alexandre), Central German (Lamprecht's Alexanderlied, and a 15th-century version by Johannes Hartlieb), Slavonic,[23] Romanian, Hungarian, Irish, and more.[19][24]

The Syriac Alexander Legend, composed either in ~630 shortly after Heraclius defeated the Persians[25] or in the mid-6th century during the reign of Justinian I,[26] contains additional motifs not found in the earliest Greek version of the Romance, including the apocalypticization of the wall built against Gog and Magog.[27] Subsequent Middle Eastern recensions of the Alexander legend were generated in the tradition of the Syriac recension, including versions in Arabic, Persian (Iskandarnameh), Ethiopic, Hebrew (in the first part of Sefer HaAggadah), Ottoman Turkish[28] (14th century), and Middle Mongolian (13th-14th century).[29]

Greek[edit]

The Alexander Romance in a 14th century Byzantine manuscript kept in the Church of San Giorgio dei Greci, Venice.

The most important Greek recensions of the Alexander Romance are the α, β, γ and ε recensions. There is also a variant of β called λ, and the now-lost δ was perhaps the most important in the transmission of the text into the non-Greek world as it was the basis of the 10th-century Latin translation produced by Leo the Archpriest.[15] The Recensio α, also known as the Historia Alexandri Magni, is the oldest and can be dated to the 3rd century CE. It is known from one manuscript, called A. It was subjected to various revisions during the Byzantine Empire, some of them recasting it into poetical form in Medieval Greek vernacular. Recensio α is the source of a Latin version by Julius Valerius Alexander Polemius (4th century), as well as an Armenian version (5th century). The β recension was likely composed between 300 and 550 CE. A combination of α and some material from β was used to create the ε recension in the 8th century. Furthermore, the β and ε recensions were combined to generate the much larger γ recension later still.[30]

  • Recensio α sive Recensio vetusta: Wilhelm Kroll, Historia Alexandri Magni, vol. 1. Berlin: Weidmann, 1926
  • Recensio β:
    • L. Bergson, Der griechische Alexanderroman. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1965
    • e cod. Leidensi Vulc. 93. L. Bergson, Der griechische Alexanderroman. Rezension β. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1965
    • e cod. Paris. gr. 1685 et cod. Messinensi 62): L. Bergson, Der griechische Alexanderroman. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1965
  • Recension γ:
    • lib. 1: U. von Lauenstein, Der griechische Alexanderroman. [Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie 4. Meisenheim am Glan: Hain, 1962]
    • lib. 2: H. Engelmann, Der griechische Alexanderroman. [Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie 12. Meisenheim am Glan: Hain, 1963]
    • lib. 3: F. Parthe, Der griechische Alexanderroman. [Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie 33. Meisenheim am Glan: Hain, 1969]
  • Recensio δ:
    • e cod. Vat. gr. 1700, 88v‑89r: G. Ballaira, "Frammenti inediti della perduta recensione δ del romanzo di Alessandro in un codice Vaticano", Bollettino del comitato per la preparazione dell'edizione nazionale dei classici greci e latini 13 (1965)
  • Recensio ε: Jürgen Trumpf, Anonymi Byzantini vita Alexandri regis Macedonum. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1974
  • Recensio λ:
    • lib. 3: Helmut van Thiel, Die Rezension λ des Pseudo-Kallisthenes. Bonn: Habelt 1959
    • Pseudo-Methodius redactio 1: H. van Thiel, Die Rezension λ des Pseudo-Callisthenes. Bonn: Habelt 1959
    • Pseudo-Methodius redactio 2: H. van Thiel, Die Rezension λ des Pseudo-Kallisthenes. Bonn: Habelt 1959
  • Recensio F (cod. Flor. Laurentianus Ashburn 1444), vernacular: V.L. Konstantinopulos and A.C. Lolos, Ps.-Kallisthenes ‑ Zwei mittelgriechische Prosa-Fassungen des Alexanderromans, 2 vols [Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie 141 & 150, Meisenheim am Glan: Hain 1983]
  • Recensio φ: G. Veloudis, Ἡ φυλλάδα τοῦ Μεγαλέξαντρου. Διήγησις Ἀλεξάνδρου τοῦ Μακεδόνος [Νέα Ἑλληνικὴ Βιβλιοθήκη 39. Athens: Hermes, 1977]
  • Recensio Byzantina poetica (cod. Marcianus 408): S. Reichmann, Das byzantinische Alexandergedicht nach dem codex Marcianus 408 herausgegeben [Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie 13. Meisenheim am Glan: Hain, 1963]
  • Recensio E (cod. Eton College 163), vernacular: V.L. Konstantinopulos and A.C. Lolos, Ps.-Kallisthenes, Zwei mittelgriechische Prosa. Fassungen des Alexanderromans, 2 vols [Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie 141 & 150‑ Meisenheim am Glan: Hain 1983]
  • Recensio V (cod. Vind. theol. gr. 244): K. Mitsakis, Der byzantinische Alexanderroman nach dem Codex Vind. Theol. gr. 244 [Miscellanea Byzantina Monacensia 7. Munich: Institut für Byzantinistik und neugriechische Philologie der Universität, 1967]
  • Recensio K (cod. 236 Kutlumussiu, Athos), vernacular: K. Mitsakis, "Διήγησις περὶ τοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ τῶν μεγάλων πολέμων", Byzantinisch-neugriechische Jahrbücher 20 (1970)
  • Recensio poetica (recensio R), vernacular: D. Holton, Διήγησις τοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρου. The Tale of Alexander. The Rhymed Version [Βυζαντινὴ καὶ Νεοελληνικὴ βιβλιοθήκη. Thessalonica, 1974]

Latin[edit]

  • The Res gestae Alexandri Macedonis by Julius Valerius Alexander Polemius, the first Latin translation of the Alexander Romance, made from its α recension.[31][32]
  • The Iulii Valerii Epitome, a 9th-century abridged and much more popular version of the Res gestae by Julius.[33]
  • The Nativitas et historia Alexandri Magni regis by Leo the Archpriest, translated from a Greek copy he discovered in Constantinople while he was on a diplomatic missions.[16] Leo's translation came from the now-lost δ recension.
  • The Historia de Proeliis, which was based on Leo's earlier version. It went through three recensions between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries and made Alexander a household name throughout the Middle Ages.[16] The three recensions are called I1, I2, and I3 (also called I1, I2, and I3 in some publications). They are as follows:[31][34]
    • I1 was produced in the eleventh-century and was the primary source of the next two recensions. It also took the first significant step in transforming the Romance from an entertaining narrative into one which helps convey moral narratives and stories.
    • I2 was produced in 1118–19, in the twelfth century, whose redactor may have been the geographer Guido of Pisa.
    • I3 was produced in the early thirteenth century (ca. 1218–36) and adds narratives concerning the dangers of the ambition and vanity involved in kingship, and introduces a story where two Greek philosophers and one Jewish philosopher debated, in Alexander's presence, whether the king should embrace monotheism.
  • The Alexandreis, a medieval Latin epic poem by Walter of Châtillon, a 12th-century French writer and theologian.[18]

French[edit]

There are several Old and Middle French and one Anglo-Norman Alexander romances:

English and Scots[edit]

In medieval England, the Alexander Romance experienced remarkable popularity. It is even referred to in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, where the monk apologizes to the pilgrimage group for treating a material so well known. There are five major romances in Middle English that survive, though most only in fragments. There are also two versions from Scotland, one sometimes ascribed to the Early Scots poet John Barbour, which exists only in a sixteenth-century printing; and a Middle Scots version from 1499:

  • King Alisaunder from c. 1275.[36]
  • The Romance of Alisaunder (or Alexander of Macedon), sometimes referred to as Alexander A, is a fragment of 1247 lines written in alliterative verse. It was probably written between 1340 and 1370, soon before the beginning of the Alliterative Revival, of which it is believed to be one of the oldest remaining poems. It has been preserved in a school notebook dating from 1600. Alexander A deals with the begetting of Alexander by Nectanebo II (Nectanebus), his birth, and his early years, and ends with the midst of the account of Philip's siege of Byzantium. It is likely that the source for this fragment has been the I²-recension of the Historia de Preliis. Beside that it has been expanded with additional material taken from Paulus Orosius's Historiae adversum paganos, the adverse remarks, which are typical of Orosius, however have been omitted by the poet, whose main concern is Alexander's heroic conduct.
  • Alexander and Dindimus, sometimes referred to as Alexander B, is also written in alliterative verse. This fragment is found in the MS Bodley 264 [it] and consists of five letters which are passed between Alexander and Dindimus, who is the king of the Brahmins, a people of philosophers who shun all worldly lusts, ambitions and entertainments. In this respect their way of life resembles the ideal of an aescetic life, which was also preached by medieval monastic orders, such as the Franciscans. The source of Alexander B again is the I²-recension of the Historia de Preliis.
  • The Wars of Alexander, sometimes referred to as Alexander C, is the longest of the alliterative versions of the Middle English Alexander Romances. It goes back to the I³-recension of the Historia de Preliis and can be found in the MS Ashmole 44 and in the Dublin Trinity College MS 213. Although both manuscripts are incomplete they supplement each other fairly well. In this version much space is given to letters and prophecies, which often bear a moralizing and philosophical tenor. The letters are an integral part of the Pseudo-Callisthenes tradition. The dominant theme is pride, which inevitably results in the downfall of kings. In The Wars of Alexander the hero is endowed with superhuman qualities, which shows in the romance insofar as his enemies fall to him by the dozens and he is always at the center of action.
  • The Prose Life of Alexander copied by Robert Thornton, c. 1440.

Middle Scots versions include:

Irish[edit]

The Irish Alexander Romance was composed around 1100, representing the first complete vernacular version of the Romance in a European vernacular.[37] It includes episodes such as Alexander's visit to Jerusalem, talking trees, encounters with Dindimus, and more. Two sources the author identified for his work were Orosius and Josephus.[38]

Spanish[edit]

The two most important Spanish versions of the Alexander Romance are[39]:

  • The Libro de Alexandre. This was a famous anonymous poem of the Alexander Romance from Christian Spain.
  • The Historia novelada de Alejandro Magno. This is an obscure Spanish version, only having been discovered an edition of Part 4 of Alfonso X's General Estoria in a recently printed edition.

German[edit]

  • The German Song of Alexander by Lamprecht, composed around 1150 as an adaptation of a poem by Albéric of Pisançon some fifty years earlier. It does not directly survive but in a version of it, close to the original, produced by Vorau.[40]
  • Alexander of Strasbourg.[40]
  • Alexander of Basel.[40]

Italian[edit]

Italian versions of the Alexander Romance include[41]:

Scandinavian[edit]

Slavonic and Bulgarian[edit]

17th-century manuscript of an Alexandrine novel (Russia): Alexander exploring the depths of sea.

There were two translations of the Alexander Romance into Old Church Slavonic/Old Bulgarian.

  • The Alexandria, full title being "The Kingdom of Alexander from Macedon" produced in tenth-century Bulgaria. It became part of the Chronograph (or the Chronograph-Alexandria). The Chronograph and Alexandria were never separated out into independent books.[23]
  • The Serbian Alexandria, completed in the fourteenth century. It is known from eleven Serbian and Bulgarian manuscripts, the first extant one dating to the fifteenth century, and follows the Greek λ recension of the Romance.[23]

Serbian[edit]

The γ recension of the Greek Alexander Romance was the ultimate source of the Old Serbian Alexander Romance.[47][48] In the 13th century, a translation from an Alexander legend either in Latin or Italian was made to produce the first Alexander Romance in the Cyrillic script. A redaction of this text in the 14th century in Dalmatia is what has come down as the Old Serbian Alexander Romance. and it went on to become the basis for adaptations of Alexander legends throughout the Balkans. By the 17th century, it was circulating in both Bulgarian and Romanian translations.[48] The Russian Alexander Romance is also a translation of the Serbian one.[49]

Russian[edit]

The Alexander Romance spread into Russia from the fifteenth century onwards, translated from the earlier Serbian version.[49]

Romanian[edit]

The Romanian Alexander Romance, entitled the Alexandria, was derived from a Greek and Serbian variant and became the most widely-read literary text in Romania between the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.[50] In 1833, the Romanian legend was translated into Bulgarian in a copy of an earlier work, Paisiy Hilendarski's Slavic-Bulgarian History (1762).[51]

Hebrew[edit]

There are three or four medieval Hebrew versions of the Alexander Romance:

  • The Josippon, a 10th-century text into which a version of the Alexander Romance was interpolated into in later times.
  • A literal and slightly abridged translation from the original Greek is found in the manuscript Parma, Bibliotheca I. B. de Rossi, MS Heb. 1087. This version was also partially interpolated into the Sefer Yosippon in the 10th century.[52]
  • In the 12th or 13th century, an anonymous translator or translators translated a lost Arabic translation of the Latin Historia de Preliis into Hebrew. This is found in the manuscript Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Héb. 671.5 and London, Jews' College Library, MS 145. These may represent a single translation in different versions or else two translations, with the Paris version having been used to complete the London. The translator (or one of them) may have been Samuel ibn Tibbon, who made other translations from Arabic.[52]
  • In the 14th century Immanuel Bonfils translated the Historia de Preliis directly from Latin into Hebrew. This is found today only in the manuscript Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Héb. 750.3, but an illuminated copy once resided in the Royal Library of Turin (c. 1880) before being destroyed in a fire.[52]

Armenian[edit]

The Armenian translation, derived from the α recension of the Alexander Romance, is typically dated to the fifth century.[53] The translator may have been Movses of Khoren. The earliest manuscript is from the 12th century, called San Lazzaro MS 424 - Alexander romance (see [1]).[54] In 1969, a translation of the Armenian recension was published by Albert Mugrdich Wolohojian.[55]

Coptic[edit]

A Coptic translation of the Romance from the Greek was already being revised in the sixth century. A fragmentary manuscript, originally 220 pages long, in the Sahidic dialect was discovered in the White Monastery.[56] It has been edited and published by Oscar von Lemm.[57] It draws on older Demotic Egyptian traditions, which existed in written form perhaps as early as 275 BC.[58]

Georgian[edit]

Though Georgian versions of the Alexander Romance have not survived, that they existed is known; it is thought that two versions existed. The earlier came into existence between the fourth and seventh centuries and its influence is detectable in extant Georgian texts such as The Conversion of Kartli chronicles and in The Life of Kings. The second was produced sometime between the ninth to twelfth centuries, and fragments of it were kept by the chronicler of David the Builder and by a Mongolian-era Georgian chronicler. Legends of Alexander would continue to influence varieties of Georgian literature from the twelfth to fourteenth centuries. Later, in the eighteenth century, the 18th-century king Archil of Imereti would produce a translation of a Serbian or Russian Alexander Romance into Georgian, and this one has survived.[59]

Syriac[edit]

  • A Syriac version of the Alexander Romance of Pseudo-Callisthenes.[60]
  • The Syriac Alexander Legend, composed in prose and preserved in five manuscripts, the oldest of which was compiled in 1708-09.[25] It is largely based on the Greek Pseudo-Callisthenes version, with slight modifications, such as the addition of Alexander's journey to China.[25] The text is commonly attributed in its provenance to north Mesopotamia around 629-630 CE, shortly after Heraclius defeated the Persians,[25] though more recent suggestions place it in the mid-6th century under Justinian I.[61] The Syriac Legend contains additional motifs not found in the earliest Greek Romance, including the episode where Alexander builds a wall against Gog and Magog.[27]
  • Another prose version though shorter than the Legend.[60]
  • The Syriac Alexander Homily, also known as the Alexander Song, is a poem spuriously attributed to Jacob of Serugh and is slightly later than the Legend. It's author is sometimes referred to as Pseudo-Jacob.[60]

Arabic[edit]

Persian[edit]

Turkish[edit]

Mongolian[edit]

  • The Mongolian Alexander Romance was composed in the 13th or 14th century in the Uyghur alphabet.[29]

Malay[edit]

Ethiopic[edit]

An Ethiopic version of the Alexander Romance was first composed in the Geʽez language between the 14th and 16th centuries was produced as a translation of an intermediary 9th-century Arabic text of what ultimately goes back to the Syriac recension.[93] The Ethiopic version also integrates motifs from the Syriac Alexander Legend within the Romance narrative.[93] There are seven known Ethiopian Alexander Romances:[94]

See also[edit]

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Translations[edit]

  • Bürgel, J. Christoph, Nizami. Das Alexanderbuch, Munich: Manesse, 1991.
  • Favager, D.J. (translator) The Romance of Alexander of Alexandre de Paris (abbreviated translation) Kindle (2021)
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Further reading[edit]

  • Aerts, W. J., et al., Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages, Nijmegen, 1978.
  • Boyle, J. A., "The Alexander Romance In The East And West", Bulletin Of The John Rylands University Library Of Manchester 60 (1977), pp. 19–20.
  • Chasseur, M., Oriental Elements in Surat al Kahf. Annali di Scienze Religiose 1, Brepols Publishers 2008, ISSN 2031-5929, p. 255-289 (Brepols Journals Online)
  • Gero, S., "The Legend Of Alexander The Great In The Christian Orient", Bulletin Of The John Rylands University Library Of Manchester, 1993, Volume 75.
  • Gosman, Martin, "Le roman de toute chevalerie et le public visé: la légende au service de la royauté". In Neophilologus 72 (1988), 335–343.
  • Gosman, Martin, "Le roman d'Alexandre et les "juvenes": une approche socio-historique". In Neophilologus 66 (1982), 328–339.
  • Gosman, Martin, "La légende d'Alexandre le Grand dans la littérature française du douzième siècle", Rodopi, 1997. ISBN 90-420-0213-1.
  • Kotar, Peter, Der syrische Alexanderroman, Hamburg, 2013.
  • Merkelbach, Reinhold, Die Quellen des griechischen Alexanderromans (Munich, 1977). Cf. his and Stanley Burstein's discussions of the epigraphical fragment SEG 33.802 in the journal Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Vol. 77 (1989), 275-280.
  • Selden, Daniel, "Text Networks," Ancient Narrative 8 (2009), 1–23.
  • Stoneman, Richard, Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend, Yale University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-300-11203-0
  • Stoneman, Richard and Kyle Erickson, eds. The Alexander Romance in Persia and the East, Barkhuis: 2012l.
  • Zuwiyya, David, A Companion to Alexander Literature in the Middle Ages, Brill: Leiden, 2011.
  • Nawotka, Krzysztof (2018). "Syriac and Persian Versions of the Alexander Romance". Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great. Brill. pp. 525–542. ISBN 978-90-04-35993-2.
  • Doufikar-Aerts, Faustina (2010). Alexander Magnus Arabicus: A Survey of the Alexander Tradition Through Seven Centuries : from Pseudo-Callisthenes to Ṣūrī. Isd. ISBN 978-90-429-2183-2.

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