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Alexandreis

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Medieval Latin poem by Walter of Châtillon

For the 13th-century poem, seeQuilichinus of Spoleto.

TheAlexandreis (orAlexandreid) is a medievalLatin epic poem byWalter of Châtillon, a 12th-centuryFrench writer andtheologian. It gives an account of the life ofAlexander the Great, based onQuintus Curtius Rufus'Historia Alexandri Magni. The poem was popular and influential in Walter's own times: according toHenry of Ghent, it was more popular thanVirgil'sAeneid in thirteenth-century schools.Matthew of Vendôme andAlan of Lille borrowed from it andHenry of Settimello imitated it, but it is now seldom read. One line is sometimes quoted:

Incidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim (You run intoScylla, desiring to avoidCharybdis) (V.301).^[1]^[2]^[relevant?]

EnglishWikisource has original text related to this article:

Alexandreida

Translations were made into Old Spanish (Libro de Alexandre), Middle Dutch (Jacob van Maerlant'sAlexanders Geesten), Old Norse (Alexanders saga) and Old Czech (Alexandreida).

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

Aristotle warned by Alexander his pupil; destruction ofThebes; description of Asia; Alexander journeys toIlium; account of the dream of Alexander
Alexander solves theGordian knot; illness of Alexander; the Persian army; the shield of kingDarius
Battle of the Issus;Tyre andEgypt are taken; Alexander's journey to theoracle of Ammon; death of the queen of Persia in captivity; message from the sarcophagus of the queen
Alexander's dream of the goddessVictoria
Battle of Arbela; Alexander is victorious and entersBabylon
Susa andPersepolis are taken; the doubts of Darius
Darius flees and is slain at Bessus; message from the tomb of Darius
War against the Hyrcani andScythians; meeting ofThalestris queen of theAmazons with Alexander
Journey of the army toIndia; king Porus subdued by Alexander; description of India; weariness of the soldiers
Journey to the underworld; the oath; granting of the world; death of Alexander

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.)

^Gualterus de Castiglione."Alexandreis: Liber V".Bibliotheca Augustana. Hochschule Ausburg. Retrieved3 June 2019.
^Some versions havequi vult vitare.... ("who wishes to avoid...") instead
^Townsend, David (1996).The Alexandreis of Walter of Châtillon: a twelfth-century epic: a verse translation. The Middle Ages series. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press.ISBN 978-0-8122-3347-6.