Because of this, a simpler and easier to read abridged version of the Latin translation composed in the 9th century, known as the Zacher Epitome, surpassed it in popularity.
The author of the Res gestae was Julius Valerius Alexander Polemius, a Greek native who would learn Latin during his studies.
Nevertheless, most have accepted the full name as his real one and he is typically identified, as in the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, with Flavius Polemius, who was Consul in 338 and Comes of the East in 345.
[1] Around 350, an Itinerarium Alexandri was composed based on the Res gestae and a lost work of Alexander's biography by Arrian.
Julius Valerius' complete works were also used by Albéric de Pisançon (c. 1130), a source for the Old French Roman d'Alexandre and the Alexandried of the German poet Pfaffe Lamprecht.