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CALLISTHENES (c. 360328 B.C.)

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 57 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAL-CAR
CALLISTHENES (c. 360328 B.C.) , of Olynthus, Greek historian, a relative and pupil of
Aristotle
 , through whose recommendation he was appointed to attend Alexander the
Great
  in his Asiatic expedition. He censured Alexander's adoption of oriental customs, inveighing especially against the servile ceremony of adoration. Having thereby greatly offended the 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
special
  treatise (KaXAuQ6'kans , crepe rivOovs) by his friend Theophrastus, whose acquaintance he made during a visit to Athens. Callisthenes wrote an account of Alexander's expedition, a history of
Greece
  from the peace of Antalcidas (387) to the Phocian war (357), a history of the Phocian war and other works, all of which have perished. The romantic life of Alexander, the basis of all the Alexander legends of the middle ages, originated during the time of the Ptolemies, but in its present form belongs to the 3rd century A.D. Its author is usually known as pseudo-Callisthenes, although in the Latin
translation
  by
Julius
  Valerius Alexander Polemius (beginning of the 4th century) it is ascribed to a certain Aesopus;
Aristotle
 , Antisthenes, Onesicritus and Arrian have also been credited with the authorship. There are also Syrian, Armenian and Slavonic versions, in addition to four Greek versions (two in
prose
  and two in verse) in the middle ages (see Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur, 1897, p. 849). Valerius's
translation
  was completely superseded by that of Leo, arch-priest of Naples in the loth century, the so-called Historia de Preliis.
See Scriptores serum Alexandri Magni (by C. W. Muller, in the 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 (18381842); J. Zacher, Pseudo-Callisthenes (1867); W. Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur (1898), pp. 363, $19 article by
Edward
  Meyer in Ersch and Gruber's Allgemeine Encyklopadie; A. Ausfeld, Zur Kritik des griechischen Alexanderromans (Bruchsal, 1894);
Plutarch
 , Alexander, 52-55; Arrian, Anab. iv. lo-14; Diog. Laertius v. r; Quintus Curtius viii. 5-8; Suidas s.v. See also ALEXANDER THE
GREAT
  (ad fin.). For the Latin translations see Teuffel-Schwabe, Hist. of Roman Literature (Eng. trans.), 399; and M. Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Litteratur, iv. I., p. 43.


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