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See also: Olynthus, See also: Greek historian, a relative and 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 adoption of See also: oriental customs, inveighing especially against the servile ceremony of adoration
.
Having thereby greatly offended the See also: king, he was accused of being privy to a treasonable conspiracy and thrown into prison, where he died from 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 Athens
.
See also: Callisthenes wrote an 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 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 of the See also: Ptolemies, but in its See also: present See also: form belongs to the 3rd 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 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Valerius's translation was completely superseded by that of See also: Leo, See also: arch-See also: priest of Naples in the loth century, the so-called Historia de Preliis
.
See Scriptores serum Alexandri Magni (by C
.
W
.
See also: Muller, in the
See also: Didot edition of Arrian, 1846), containing the genuine fragments and the 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
.
Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur (1898), pp
.
363, $19 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); Plutarch, Alexander, 52-55; Arrian, Anab. iv. lo-14; Diog
.
Laertius v. r; See also: Quintus Curtius viii
.
5-8; Suidas s.v
.
See also ALEXANDER THE GREAT (ad fin.)
.
For the Latin See also: translations see Teuffel-See also: Schwabe, Hist. of See also: Roman Literature (Eng. trans.), § 399; and M
.
Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Litteratur, iv
.
I., p
.
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