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These are happy times for scholars in the field of the Alexander Romance and the narratives surroundig it: Even in the 1960s Friedrich Pfister, one of the pioneers and the nestor of Alexander studies in Germany, could deplore that basic texts concerning the Alexander Romance(s) still weren’t available in reliable critical editions, and for a very long time George Cary’s and Reinhold Merkelbach’s opera magna1 on the subject were quite the only reference guides through a jungle of different versions and recensions of Greek, Latin, and vernacular legendary texts about Alexander the Great. But the last two decades, and recent years especially, have seen an ever increasing interest and research in this area of scholarship and several surveys and many special studies have been issued2. The book under review deals with some today presumably lesser known small legendary texts on Alexander and his Indian campaign, although in late antiquity and the middle ages these had an enormous influence on other works, Latin and the vernaculars alike. This „new paperback edition“, then, as it is called on page IV, is an altered reprint of the 1994 edition originally published by Everyman. The main part of the book – that is the translations of texts regarding legends of Alexander the Great from late antiquity and (in appendix II) early English receptions and adaptions of these legends – is an exact reprint of that first edition, which can also be deduced from a slightly darker printing. For this new edition, however, Stoneman has duly revised and expanded the introduction (VII-XLV), the notes (111-22), and, of course, updated the bibliography (123-9). Furthermore a welcomed translation of the Geneva papyrus 271 has been added in appendix I (78-83).

RichaRd Stoneman, Legends of Alexander the Great, London - New York: Tauris, 2012, pp. XLVI + 134, ISBN 9781848857858.