ALEXANDREIS

'''Alexandreis, sive Gesta Alexandri Magni''' (''The Alexandreid, or 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, even being translated into Icelandic prose 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:
:''Incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim'' (Wanting to avoid Charybdis, he runs into Scylla.)

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★ 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.

★ J. Blänsdorf, ''Einführung in Walther von Châtillon, Alexandreis'' ( http://www.jblaensdorf-mainz.homepage.t-online.de/Walther__Alexandr_/walther__alexandr_.html )

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★ Latin text of the ''Alexandreis'' at the Bibliotheca Augustana