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{{short description|Account of the life and exploits of Alexander the Great}}
{{See also|Alexander the Great in legend}}
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[[File:Alexander romance. Armenian illuminated manuscript of XIV century (Venice, San Lazzaro, 424).jpg|thumb|right|Armenian illuminated manuscript of the 14th century]]
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The '''''Alexander Romance''''' is an account of the life and exploits of [[Alexander the Great]]. Although constructed around a historical core, the [[Romance (prose fiction)|romance]] is mostly fictional. 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. Several late manuscripts attribute the work to Alexander's court historian [[Callisthenes]], but Callisthenes died before Alexander and therefore could not have written a full account of his life. The unknown author is still sometimes known as '''[[Pseudepigrapha|Pseudo]]-Callisthenes'''.

Between the 4th and the 16th centuries, the ''Alexander Romance'' was translated into [[Coptic language|Coptic]], [[Ge'ez language|Ge'ez]], [[Middle Persian]], [[Byzantine Greek]], [[Arabic]], [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Armenian language|Armenian]], [[Syriac language|Syriac]], [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], and most medieval European vernaculars. The romance was also put into [[Poetry|verse]], as in a Byzantine [[recension]] of 1388. 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.<ref>See, e.g., [https://www.britannica.com/art/Alexander-romance Alexander romance] at ''Encyclopaedia Britannica''.</ref>

==Versions of the romance==
Alexander was a legend during his own time. In a now-lost history of the king, the historical Callisthenes described the sea in [[Cilicia]] as drawing back from him in [[proskynesis]]. Writing after Alexander's death, the historian and philosopher [[Onesicritus]] invented a tryst between Alexander and [[Thalestris]], queen of the mythical [[Amazons]]. (Onesicritus was widely criticized even in his own time for his inaccuracies; according to [[Plutarch]], when Onesicritus read the relevant passage to his patron [[Lysimachus]], one of Alexander's generals who later became a king himself, Lysimachus quipped, "I wonder where I was at the time."<ref>Plutarch, ''Life of Alexander'', XLVI.</ref>)

Throughout [[classical antiquity]] and the [[Middle Ages]], the ''Romance'' experienced numerous expansions and revisions exhibiting a variability unknown for more formal literary forms. [[Latin]], [[Armenian language|Armenian]], [[Georgian language|Georgian]], and [[Syriac language|Syriac]] translations were produced in [[Late Antiquity]] (4th to 6th centuries).

The Latin ''[[Alexandreis]]'' of [[Walter of Châtillon]] was one of the most popular medieval romances. A 10th-century Latin version by one [[Leo the Archpriest]] is the basis of the later medieval vernacular translations in all the major languages of [[Europe]], including [[Old French]] (12th century), [[Middle English]], [[Early Scots]] (''[[The Buik of Alexander]]'', 13th century), [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]] (the ''[[Libro de Alexandre]]''), [[Central German]] ([[Lamprecht]]'s ''Alexanderlied'', and a 15th-century version by [[Johannes Hartlieb]]), [[Slavic languages|Slavonic]],{{Citation needed|date=September 2007}} [[Romanian language|Romanian]],{{Citation needed|date=September 2007}} [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] and Irish.<ref>[[Kuno Meyer]], ''Eine irische Version der Alexandersage'', 1884.</ref>

The Syriac version generated [[Middle East]]ern recensions, including versions in [[Arabic language|Arabic]], [[Middle Persian|Persian]] (''[[Iskandarnamah]]''), [[Ge'ez language|Ethiopic]], Hebrew (in the first part of [[Sefer HaAggadah]]), [[Ottoman Turkish language|Ottoman Turkish]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://universalium.academic.ru/256043/Ahmedi,_Taceddin |title=Ahmedi, Taceddin |work=universalium.academic.ru |access-date=19 December 2011}}</ref> (14th century), and [[Middle Mongol language|Middle Mongolian]]<ref>{{cite journal |last=Cleaves |first=Francis Woodman |date=Dec 1959 |title=An Early Mongolian Version of The Alexander Romance |jstor=2718540 |journal=Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies |volume=22 |pages=1–99 |doi=10.2307/2718540 }}</ref> (13th-14th century). In addition to the ''Alexander Romance'' of Pseudo-Callisthenes, the Syriac version also includes a short appendix now known as the ''[[Syriac Alexander Legend]]''.<ref name=brillA /> This original Syriac text was written in north Mesopotamia around 629-630 CE, shortly after [[Heraclius]] defeated the Persians.<ref name="ciancaglini">{{Cite journal| doi = 10.2143/MUS.114.1.302| volume = 114| issue = 1–2| pages = 121–140| last = Ciancaglini| first = Claudia A.| title = The Syriac Version of the Alexander Romance| journal = Le Muséon| date = 2001}}</ref> It contains additional motifs not found in the earliest Greek version of the ''Romance'', including the episode where Alexander builds a wall against [[Gog and Magog]].<ref name=brillA>{{Cite book| publisher = Brill| isbn = 978-90-04-17416-0| last1 = Donzel| first1 = Emeri J. van| last2 = Schmidt| first2 = Andrea Barbara| title = Gog and Magog in Early Eastern Christian and Islamic Sources: Sallam's Quest for Alexander's Wall| date = 2010|page=17|quote=The episode of Alexander's building a wall against Gog and Magog, however, is not found in the oldest Greek, Latin, Armenian and Syriac versions of the ''Romance''. Though the Alexander Romance was decisive for the spreading of the new and supernatural image of Alexander the king in East and West, the barrier episode has not its origin in this text. The fusion of the motif of Alexander's barrier with the Biblical tradition of the apocalyptic peoples Gog and Magog appears in fact for the first time in the so called ''Syriac Alexander Legend''. This text is a short appendix attached to the Syriac manuscripts of the ''Alexander Romance''.}}</ref>

==Greek versions==
The oldest version of the Greek text, the '''''Historia Alexandri Magni''''' (Recensio α), can be dated to the 3rd century CE. 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). Most of the content of the ''Romance'' is fantastical, including many miraculous tales and encounters with mythical creatures such as [[Siren (mythology)|siren]]s or [[centaur]]s.

*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
*Recensio β (e cod. Leidensi Vulc. 93) L. Bergson, ''Der griechische Alexanderroman''. Rezension β. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1965
*Recensio β (e cod. Paris. gr. 1685 et cod. Messinensi 62): L. Bergson, ''Der griechische Alexanderroman''. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1965
*Recensio γ (lib. 1): U. von Lauenstein, ''Der griechische Alexanderroman''. [Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie 4. Meisenheim am Glan: Hain, 1962]
*Recensio γ (lib. 2): H. Engelmann, ''Der griechische Alexanderroman''. [Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie 12. Meisenheim am Glan: Hain, 1963]
*Recensio γ (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
*Recensio λ ([[Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius|Pseudo-Methodius]] redactio 1) H. van Thiel, ''Die Rezension λ des Pseudo-Callisthenes''. Bonn: Habelt 1959
*Recensio λ (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, {{lang|grc|Ἡ φυλλάδα τοῦ Μεγαλέξαντρου. Διήγησις Ἀλεξάνδρου τοῦ Μακεδόνος}} [{{lang|grc|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, [[Mount Athos|Athos]]), vernacular: K. Mitsakis, "{{lang|grc|Διήγησις περὶ τοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ τῶν μεγάλων πολέμων}}", Byzantinisch-neugriechische Jahrbücher 20 (1970)
*Recensio poetica (recensio R), vernacular: D. Holton, {{lang|grc|Διήγησις τοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρου}}. ''The Tale of Alexander. The Rhymed Version'' [{{lang|grc|Βυζαντινὴ καὶ Νεοελληνικὴ βιβλιοθήκη}}. Thessalonica, 1974]

==French versions==
There are several [[Old French|Old]] and [[Middle French]] and one [[Anglo-Norman language|Anglo-Norman]] Alexander romances:
#''[[Alexandre (romance)|Alexandre]]'' by [[Albéric de Briançon]], composed {{circa}} 1120.
#''[[Fuerre de Gadres]]'' by a certain [[Eustache]], later used by Alexandre de Bernay and Thomas de Kent.
#''[[Decasyllabic Alexander]]'', by an anonymous author between 1160–70.
#''[[Mort Alixandre]]'', an anonymous fragment of 159 lines.
#''[[Li romans d'Alixandre]]'' ({{circa}} 1170), attributed to clergyman [[Alexandre de Bernay]] (also known as Alexandre de Pâris), is based on the translations of various episodes of the conqueror's life as composed by previous poets (Lambert de Tort, Eustache, and more importantly Albéric of Besançon). Unlike other authors of the era who undertook the Alexander saga, he did not base his work on the Pseudo-Callisthenes or on the various translations of [[Julius Valerius Alexander Polemius|Julius Valerius]]'s work. As was common in medieval literature, the project resulted from the desire to improve on the work of others and to offer the complete life of the hero to the public, a theme that is also very present in the cycles of the ''[[chansons de geste]]'' at the time. Thomas de Kent also (probably) penned a version of the saga, ''Le roman de toute chevalerie'', during the very same decade but independent of Alexandre de Bernay's poem; Alexander's influence on the medieval imagination is thus shown as being as great as, if not greater than, that of other pagan figures such as [[Hercules]] or [[Aeneas]].
#[[Thomas de Kent]] (or Eustache), {{circa}} 1175, wrote the Anglo-Norman ''[[Roman de toute chevalerie]]'', which became the basis for the [[Middle English]] ''King Alysaunder''.
#''[[La Venjance Alixandre]]'' by [[Jehan le Nevelon]].
#''[[Alixandre en Orient]]'' by [[Lambert de Tort]], composed {{circa}} 1170.
#''[[Le Vengement Alixandre]]'' by [[Gui de Cambrai]], before 1191.
#''[[Roman d'Alexandre en prose]]'', by an anonymous author, the most popular Old French version.
#''[[Prise de Defur]]'', from [[Picardy]] {{circa}} 1250.
#''[[Voyage d'Alexandre au Paradis terrestre]]'', a French adaptation ({{circa}} 1260) of the Latin ''[[Iter ad paradisum]]''.
#The [[Vow Cycle]] of Alexander romances includes the ''[[Voeux du paon|Vœux du paon]]'' by [[Jacques de Longuyon]], ''[[Restor du Paon]]'' by [[Jean le Court]], and ''[[Parfait du paon]]'' by [[Jean de Le Mote]].
#''[[Faicts et les Conquestes d'Alexandre le Grand]]'' by [[Jean Wauquelin]] {{circa}} 1448.
#''[[Fais et concquestes du noble roy Alexandre]]'', a late medieval prose version.
#''[[Faits du grand Alexandre]]'' by [[Vasque de Lucène]], a prose translation (1468) of [[Quintus Curtius Rufus]]'s ''Historiae Alexandri Magni''.

==English versions==
In medieval [[England]], the ''Alexander Romance'' experienced remarkable popularity. It is even referred to in [[Geoffrey Chaucer|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 (poet)|John Barbour]], which exists only in a sixteenth-century printing; and a [[Middle Scots]] version from 1499:
#''[[King Alisaunder]]'' from {{circa}} 1275.<ref>In medieval orthography, "king" could be "kyng" and "Alisaunder" could be "Alysaunder".</ref>
#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 {{Interlanguage link multi|Bodley 264|it|3=Manoscritto Bodley 264|lt=MS Bodley 264|vertical-align=sup}} and consists of five letters which are passed between Alexander and Dindimus, who is the king of the [[Brahmin]]s, 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 (scribe)|Robert Thornton]], {{circa}} 1440.
#''[[The Buik of Alexander]]'', anonymous, attributed to [[John Barbour (poet)|John Barbour]], dates to 1438 according to its first printed edition from 1580.
#''[[The Buik of King Alexander the Conquerour]]'' by [[Gilbert Hay (poet)|Gilbert Hay]], 1499. This work is in [[Middle Scots]].

==Hebrew versions==
{{for|earlier Jewish legends not derived from Pseudo-Callisthenes|Alexander the Great in legend#Jewish legends}}
There are three or four [[medieval Hebrew]] versions of the ''Alexander Romance'':
#A literal and slightly abridged translation from the original Greek is found in the manuscript Parma, [[Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi|Bibliotheca I. B. de Rossi]], MS Heb. 1087. This version was also partially interpolated into the ''[[Sefer Yosippon]]'' in the 10th century.<ref name=WJvB>[[Wout van Bekkum]] (1986), "Alexander the Great in Medieval Hebrew Literature", ''Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes'' '''49''', pp. 218–226, at 223–225. {{doi|10.2307/751298}}</ref>
#In the 12th or 13th century, an anonymous translator or translators translated a [[lost work|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, [[London School of Jewish Studies|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.<ref name=WJvB/>
#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]] ({{circa}} 1880) before being destroyed in a fire.<ref name=WJvB/>

==Syriac versions==
[[File:Sharafnama of Nizami, Bengal.jpg|thumb|[[Alexander the Great|Alexander]] sharing his throne with Queen Nushabah, taken from the Sharaf-Nama written by [[Nizami Ganjavi]] and manuscript owned by the [[Sultan of Bengal]] [[Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah]]. ([[British Library]])]]
The Syriac version of the ''Alexander Romance'' is preserved in five manuscripts, the oldest of which was compiled in 1708-09.<ref name="ciancaglini" /> It is largely based on the Greek Pseudo-Callisthenes version, with slight modifications, such as the addition of Alexander's journey to China.<ref name="ciancaglini" />

In Syriac literature in particular, there are other works originally written in Syriac that are often attached to the ''Alexander Romance'' manuscripts. These works include the ''[[Syriac Alexander Legend]]'', the composition of which is commonly attributed to north Mesopotamia around 629-630 CE, shortly after [[Heraclius]] defeated the Persians.<ref name="ciancaglini" /> 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]].<ref name=brillA /> There is also a poem (often wrongly attributed to [[Jacob of Serugh]]) based on the ''Syriac Legend'' but written slightly later. Finally, there is a shorter version of the ''Legend'' and an original brief biography of Alexander.<ref name="ciancaglini" />

==Slavonic versions==
[[File:Alexandria serbskaya.jpg|thumb|300px|17th-century manuscript of an Alexandrine novel (Russia): Alexander exploring the depths of sea.]]
In the Middle Ages and later, on the Balkans and in Eastern Europe, also appeared many translations of the novel in Old-Slavonic and Slavonic languages.

This is how a version in Bulgarian from 1810 begins:
{{Quote|Alexandriada – a story of the great Emperor Alexander of Macedonia, son of Philip. God decided to punish those kings who had equated themselves with Him... And chose the glorious Macedonia to make it happen.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/bulgarskistarini13bulguoft Lyubomir Miletich - “Една българска Александрия от 1810 год.” (Български старини XIII), page 48, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1936]</ref>}}

==Arabic, Persian, Armenian, and Ethiopic versions==
The [[Middle Persian]] version on which the [[Syriac language|Syriac]] and [[Arabic]] version based, dated c. 4th century written by some anonymous [[Christians|Christian]] writers in [[Sasanian Empire|Sassanid Empire]].<ref>Darvishi, Dariush, [https://www.academia.edu/95955711/%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%87_%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B3%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_The_Alexander_Romance The Alexander Romance], page 153-170, Tehran, Negah-e Moaser, 2022]</ref>

The Armenian edition can be found in "San Lazzaro MS 424 - Alexander romance" (see [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:San_Lazzaro_MS_424_-_Alexander_romance]).

The [[Ethiopic]] version, dated between the 14th and 16th centuries, while ultimately based on the Syriac original, is said to be a translation from a presumed intermediary Arabic version from the 9th century.<ref name=aerts /> The Ethiopic version also integrates motifs from the ''[[Syriac Alexander Legend]]'' within the ''Romance'' narrative.<ref name=aerts>{{Cite journal| doi = 10.2143/JECS.55.3.504417| volume = 55| issue = 3–4| last = Doufikar-Aerts| first = Faustina C.W.| title = Alexander the Flexible Friend: Some Reflections on the Representation of Alexander the Great in the Arabic Alexander Romance| journal = Journal of Eastern Christian Studies| date = 2003|pages=196, 204|quote=Moreover, the integration of the Gog and Magog episode based on the Christian Syriac Alexander Legend, the allusions to the principle of Trinity, and many other signs determine the text as a Christianized revision of the Romance.}}</ref>

There exist two later [[Persian language|Persian]] varieties which are the ''Iskandarnameh'' and the ''A’ina-yi Sikanderi'' of [[Amir Khusrow]].<ref>Evangelos Venetis, ''The Persian Alexander: The First Complete English Translation of the Iskandarnama'', Bloomsbury 2017.</ref>

==See also==
*[[Alexander the Great in legend]]
*[[Gates of Alexander]]
*[[Letters of Alexander the Great]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Translations==
*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)
*Harf-Lancner, Laurence (translator and commentator, edited by Armstrong and al.). ''Le roman d'Alexandre'', Livre de poche, 1994. {{ISBN|2-253-06655-9}}.
*Southgate, Minoo (translator). ''Iskandarnamah : a Persian medieval Alexander-romance''. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1978. {{ISBN|0-231-04416-X}}.
*Stoneman, Richard (editor and translator). ''The Greek Alexander Romance''. New York: Penguin, 1991. {{ISBN|0-14-044560-9}}.
*Wolohojian, A. H. ''The Romance of Alexander the Great by Pseudo-Callisthenes'' (from the Armenian). Columbia University Press, 1969.
*{{Cite book|editor-last=Budge |editor-first=Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis |editor-link=E. A. Wallis Budge |title=The History of Alexander the Great, Being the Syriac Version |volume=II |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1889 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XBxjAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1}}

==Further reading==
*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 ([https://archive.today/20130104090531/http://brepols.metapress.com/content/v64518701256k28t/ 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.
*{{Cite book| publisher = Brill| pages = 525–542| last = Nawotka| first = Krzysztof| title = Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great| chapter = Syriac and Persian Versions of the Alexander Romance| date = 2018|isbn = 978-90-04-35993-2}}
*{{Cite book| publisher = Isd| isbn = 978-90-429-2183-2| last1 = Doufikar-Aerts| first1 = Faustina| title = Alexander Magnus Arabicus: A Survey of the Alexander Tradition Through Seven Centuries : from Pseudo-Callisthenes to Ṣūrī| date = 2010}}

==External links==
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*[http://www.library.rochester.edu/robbins/medieval-alexander The Medieval Alexander Bibliographies] at the [[University of Rochester]]
*[http://www.attalus.org/info/alexander.html Text and English translation of the Greek Alexander Romance]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071017042658/http://ancientlibrary.com/wcd/Alexander_Romance Wiki Classical Dictionary]
*[http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Sources/BBalex.html Is The Source Of Qur'an 18:60-65 The Alexander Romances?]
*[https://archive.org/details/bulgarskistarini13bulguoft Милетич, Любомир. Една българска Александрия от 1810 год. (= Български старини, XIII). София, 1936]
*[http://cdm16028.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/105863/rec/1 The Wild Man: Medieval Myth and Symbolism], an exhibition catalog from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on the Alexander Romance (nos. 5-7)

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