See also:CALLISTHENES (c. 360–328 B.C.)
, of See also:Olynthus, See also:Greek historian, a relative and See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of See also:Aristotle, through whose recommendation he was appointed to attend See also:Alexander the See also:Great in his See also:Asiatic expedition
.
He censured Alexander's See also:adoption of See also:oriental customs, inveighing especially against the servile ceremony of See also:adoration
.
Having thereby greatly offended the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, he was accused of being privy to a treasonable See also:conspiracy and thrown into See also:prison, where he died from See also:torture or disease
.
His melancholyend was commemorated in a See also:special See also:treatise (KaXAuQ6'kans , crepe rivOovs) by his friend See also:Theophrastus, whose acquaintance he made during a visit to See also:Athens
.
See also:Callisthenes wrote an See also:account of Alexander's expedition, a See also:history of See also:Greece from the See also:peace of See also:Antalcidas (387) to the Phocian See also:war (357), a history of the Phocian war and other See also:works, all of which have perished
.
The romantic See also:life of Alexander, the basis of all the Alexander legends of the See also:middle ages, originated during the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the See also:Ptolemies, but in its See also:present See also:form belongs to the 3rd See also:century A.D
.
Its author is usually known as pseudo-Callisthenes, although in the Latin See also:translation by See also:Julius See also:Valerius Alexander Polemius (beginning of the 4th century) it is ascribed to a certain See also:Aesopus; Aristotle, See also:Antisthenes, See also:Onesicritus and See also:Arrian have also been credited with the authorship
.
There are also Syrian, Armenian and See also:Slavonic versions, in addition to four Greek versions (two in See also:prose and two in See also:verse) in the middle ages (see See also:Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur, 1897, p
.
849)
.
Valerius's translation was completely superseded by that of See also:Leo, See also:arch-See also:priest of See also:Naples in the loth century, the so-called Historia de Preliis
.
See Scriptores serum Alexandri Magni (by C
.
W
.
See also:- MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
- MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
- MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
- MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
- MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
- MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
- MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
- MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
- MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
- MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)
Muller, in the See also:Didot edition of Arrian, 1846), containing the genuine fragments and the See also:text of the pseudo-Callisthenes, with notes and introduction; A
.
Westerrnann, De Callisthene Olynthio et Pseudo-Callisthene Commentatio (1838–1842); J
.
Zacher, Pseudo-Callisthenes (1867); W
.
See also:Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur (1898), pp
.
363, $19 See also:article by See also:Edward See also:Meyer in See also:Ersch and See also:Gruber's Allgemeine Encyklopadie; A
.
Ausfeld, Zur Kritik See also:des griechischen Alexanderromans (See also:Bruchsal, 1894); See also:Plutarch, Alexander, 52-55; Arrian, Anab. iv. lo-14; Diog
.
Laertius v. r; See also:Quintus See also:Curtius viii
.
5-8; Suidas s.v
.
See also ALEXANDER THE GREAT (ad fin.)
.
For the Latin See also:translations see See also:Teuffel-See also:Schwabe, Hist. of See also:Roman Literature (Eng. trans.), § 399; and M
.
Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Litteratur, iv
.
I., p
.
43
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