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Nephew of *Aristotle, he collaborated with the philosopher in compiling the official list of Pythian victors (see pythian games), and by 336 he had produced a monograph on the Third *Sacred War and a ten-book Hellenica, which covered the period 386–356. His Deeds of Alexander, written in the entourage of *Alexander (3) the Great, covered events at least to 330 and had a strong eulogistic trait, glorifying the military achievements and propagating the king's claim to divine paternity. In early 327 he alienated Alexander by his opposition to proskynesis (see alexander (3) the Great § 10), was falsely implicated in the Pages’ Conspiracy, and summarily executed. *Theophrastus lamented his death, but there is no evidence that it created a *Peripatetic tradition of hostility to Alexander. See pseudo-callisthenes for the Alexander-Romance.