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Brown, Truesdell S. “Callisthenes and Alexander.” The American Journal of Philology 70, no. 3 (1949): 225–48. https://doi.org/10.2307/291475.
Prentice, William Kelly. “Callisthenes, the Original Historian of Alexander.” Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 54 (1923): 74–85. https://doi.org/10.2307/282843.
Milns, Robert D. “CALLISTHENES ON ALEXANDER.” Mediterranean Archaeology 19/20 (2006): 233–37. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24668207.
Bosworth, A. B. “Aristotle and Callisthenes.” Historia: Zeitschrift Für Alte Geschichte 19, no. 4 (1970): 407–13. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4435151.
A. B. Bosworth. “Plutarch, Callisthenes and the Peace of Callias.” The Journal of Hellenic Studies 110 (1990): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.2307/631729.
Shrimptom, Gordon. “THE CALLISTHENES ENIGMA.” In Greece, Macedon and Persia, edited by Timothy Howe, E. Edward Garvin, and Graham Wrightson, 114–17. Oxbow Books, 2015. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt19893tw.19.
Burstein, Stanley M. “Fragment 53 of Callisthenes and the Text of Iliad 2. 850-55.” Classical Philology 71, no. 4 (1976): 339–41. http://www.jstor.org/stable/268765.
Ionescu, Dan-Tudor. “The King and His Personal Historian: The Relationship between Alexander of Macedon and Callisthenes in Bactria and Sogdiana.” In Alexander the Great and the East: History, Art, Tradition, edited by Krzysztof Nawotka and Agnieszka Wojciechowska, 1st ed., 245–62. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvckq3sm.20.
Pearson, Lionel. “Callisthenes in the Zenon Papyri.” Classical Philology 44, no. 3 (1949): 200–202. http://www.jstor.org/stable/266641.
