The Greek variants of the "Alexander romance" continued to evolve until, in the 4th century, the Greek legend was translated into Latin by Julius Valerius Alexander Polemius (where it is called the "Res gestae Alexandri Magni") and from Latin it spread to all major vernacular languages of Europe in the Middle Ages. Around the same as its translation into Latin, the Greek text was also translated into the Syriac language and from Syriac it spread to eastern cultures and languages as far afield as China and Southeast Asia. The Syriac legend was the source of an Arabic variant called the "Qisas Dhul-Qarnayn" ("Tales of Dhul-Qarnayn") and a Persian variant called the "Iskandarnamah" ("Book of Alexander"), as well as Armenian and Ethiopic translations.