Alexandreis

The Alexandreis (or Alexandreid) is a medieval Latin epic poem by Walter of Châtillon, a 12th-century French writer and theologian.

It gives an account of the life of Alexander the Great, based on Quintus Curtius Rufus' Historia Alexandri Magni.

Translations were made into Old Spanish (Libro de Alexandre), Middle Dutch (Jacob van Maerlant's Alexanders Geesten) into Old Norse as the Alexanderssaga; 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: In 1996, David Townsend published an English translation of the Alexandreis.

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