Alexandreis

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Alexandreis, sive Gesta Alexandri Magni ("The Deeds of Alexander the Great") is a medieval Latin epic poem by Walter of Châtillon, a 12th century French writer and theologian. The poem was popular and influential in Walter's own times; Matthew of Vendôme and Alan of Lille borrowed from it and Henry of Settimello imitated it, but it is now seldom read. One line is sometimes quoted:

Incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim (Wanting to avoid Charybdis, he runs into Scylla.)

[edit] Bibliography

• F. J. E. Raby, A History of Secular Latin Poetry in the Middle Ages (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934. ISBN 0198143257) vol. 2 pp. 72-80.

[edit] External link

• Latin text of the Alexandreis at the Bibliotheca Augustana