An Epitome of Biblical History
Glosses on Walter of Chatillon's 'Alexandreis' 4.176-274
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ISBN-13:
9780888444806
Veröffentl:
2008
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.01.2008
Seiten:
104
Autor:
David Townsend
Gewicht:
159 g
Format:
216x137x10 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
An epic of some 5500 lines on the life of Alexander the Great, Walter of Chatillon's Alexandreis stood, from the late twelfth century till the close of the Middle Ages, among the most successful and widely read works of Latin literature. This volume presents one free-standing version of the more or less 'standard' commentary on a uniquely celebrated passage from the poem. The lines in question, 176-274 of Book 4, describe a tomb commissioned by Alexander for the wife of Darius, after her death in captivity to the Greek commander. The painter Apelles devises for the tomb an iconographical schema largely devoted to rehearsal of the Hebrew Scriptures. The commentary elucidates Walter's compressed biblical references to the fictive tomb's illustrative cycle through extensive paraphrase of episodes from the Hebrew Bible.
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