The Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great, being a Series of Ethiopic Texts, edited from Manuscripts in the British Museum and the Bibliothèque Nationale Paris with an English Translation and Notes by E. A. Wallis Budge: I.

Published in 1896 by Charles J. Clay and Sons for the Cambridge University Press, this volume represents the first of two books dedicated to the Ethiopic Alexander Romance. Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, a renowned Egyptologist and curator at the British Museum, compiled these texts by transcribing and translating various Ethiopic manuscripts held in London and Paris. The project sought to make these rare accounts of the Alexander legend, which had evolved significantly through cross-cultural translation from Greek to Syriac and finally into Ethiopic, accessible to a broader academic audience.

Budge's design for the work emphasized both the scholarly rigor of his translation and the preservation of the original Ethiopic script. He provided an extensive introduction to contextualize the manuscripts, positioning them as vital links in the global literary tradition of the Alexander cycle. At the time of its release, the work was received as a monumental contribution to Oriental studies, appreciated by scholars for its meticulous attention to linguistic nuance and its success in broadening the Western understanding of non-European iterations of the Alexander myth.