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

Published in 1896 by Charles J. Clay and Sons for the Cambridge University Press, this work stands as a cornerstone of Sir E.A. Wallis Budge’s scholarly career during his long tenure at the British Museum. Budge aimed to provide a comprehensive academic resource by transcribing and translating various Ethiopic manuscripts that detail the legendary Alexander Romance. These texts, preserved in the British Museum and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, represent a unique intersection of classical mythology and medieval religious literature, reflecting how the narrative of Alexander was adapted and reinterpreted across different cultural landscapes.

Budge utilized his extensive linguistic expertise to compile this series, which was designed to make complex Semitic texts accessible to Western scholars and historians of the late nineteenth century. His approach was characteristic of the era's rigorous philological methods, focusing on the preservation and collation of rare manuscripts to maintain the integrity of the original narratives. While modern scholarship has occasionally revisited Budge’s interpretations, the collection remains a significant historical testament to the institutional efforts of the Victorian era to document and classify global literary heritage.