Walter of Châtillon's "Alexandreis" book 10 : a commentary
Glynn Meter (Creator), Gautier
Studien zur klassischen Philologie, 60, Bd. 60
[Commentaires]
III, 328 p. ; 21 cm
9783631430309, 3631430302
1039045021
Contents: In the Alexandreis book 10 Walter of Chatillon inveighs against Alexander the Great's overweening pride. Typically he relates his criticism to twelfth century cosmological speculation and millennialist anxieties. His epic is indebted to classical Latin epic and Biblical paraphrastic epic.