Αίσωπος) was a Greek historian who wrote a life of Alexander the Great.
The original is lost, but there is a Latin translation of it by Julius Valerius, of which Franciscus Juretus had, he says, a manuscript.
: accedunt Julii Valerii Res gestae Alexandri Macedonis, etc.
[2] Mai, in the preface to his edition, contended that the work was written before 389 AD, because the temple of Serapis at Alexandria, which was destroyed by order of Theodosius I, is spoken of in the translation as still standing.
[3] But serious objections to this inference have been raised by Letronne,[4] who refers it to the 7th or 8th century, which the weight of internal evidence would rather point to.