Alexandreis

The Alexandreis (or Alexandreid) is a medieval

Incidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim (You run into Scylla, desiring to avoid Charybdis) (V.301).^{[1][2][relevant?]}

Verses from the poem are quoted by the Lion and the Unicorn in Aesop's fable 110.

Translations

In 1996, David Townsend published an English translation of the Alexandreis.^[3]

Contents

1. Thebes; description of Asia; Alexander journeys to Ilium
   ; account of the dream of Alexander
2. Alexander solves the
   Darius
3. Battle of the Issus;
   oracle of Ammon
   ; death of the queen of Persia in captivity; message from the sarcophagus of the queen
4. Alexander's dream of the goddess Victoria
5. Battle of Arbela; Alexander is victorious and enters Babylon
6. Susa and Persepolis are taken; the doubts of Darius
7. Darius flees and is slain at Bessus; message from the tomb of Darius
8. War against the Hyrcani and Scythians; meeting of Thalestris queen of the Amazons with Alexander
9. Journey of the army to India; king Porus subdued by Alexander; description of India; weariness of the soldiers
10. Journey to the underworld; the oath; granting of the world; death of Alexander

Bibliography

• F. J. E. Raby, A History of Secular Latin Poetry in the Middle Ages (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934.
  ISBN 0-19-814325-7
  ) vol. 2 pp. 72–80.
• J. Blänsdorf, Einführung in Walther von Châtillon, Alexandreis ( https://web.archive.org/web/20070911073305/http://www.jblaensdorf-mainz.homepage.t-online.de/Walther__Alexandr_/walther__alexandr_.html )
• M. Colker, "Galteri de Castellione Alexandreis" (Padua: In aedibus Antenoreis, 1978.)

References

External links

• Latin text of the Alexandreis at the Bibliotheca Augustana

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