The History of Alexander the Great
Being the Syriac Version of the Pseudo-Callisthenes

This 1889 book is an edition of the Syriac version of a text on the life of Alexander the Great.

Ernest A. Wallis Budge (Edited and translated by)

9781107631175, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 4 July 2013

684 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm, 0.99 kg

Originally published in 1889, this book by the highly esteemed Orientalist Ernest Wallis Budge is an edition of the Syriac version of the text by Pseudo-Callisthenes on the life of Alexander the Great, one of the earliest histories of the great Macedonian general. Also included are a brief biography of Alexander, an assessment of the varying versions of the Alexander story, and a copy of the Syriac source text with scholarly footnotes and comparisons among the various manuscripts. This book will be of value to Syriac students, Classicists and anyone with an interest in the confluence of East and West in the ancient world.

Preface
Introduction
The Egyptian origin of the Alexander story
The versions of the fabulous history of Alexander
English translation: Book I
Book II
Book III
A Christian legend concerning Alexander
A brief life of Alexander
A metrical discourse upon Alexander by Jacob of S?rûgh
Glossary
Note to page xxxiv
Corrections
English index
Index of Syriac forms of proper names
Syriac text.

Subject Areas: Ancient history: to c 500 CE [HBLA]