Recepcja antycznych biografii Aleksandra Wielkiego w średniowiecznej literaturze zachodnioeuropejskiej. (Zarys problematyki)
Streszczenie
In the first part of the paper the author shows the image of Alexander the
Great in the ancient biographies by Quintus Curtlus Rufus and Plutarch of
Chaeroneia, as well as their reception in Mediaeval literature. Subsequently
the author analyses the narrative about Alexander by Pseudo-Callisthenes and
shows its derivatives in the late-antique and mediaeval literature, including
the Latin translation by Iulius Valerius Polemius, and the work by Leo of
Naples.
Among the Greek and Latin biographies of Alexander the Great the most popular
in the Middle Ages in Western Europe were the narrative by Pseudo-Callisthenes
in the Latin version by Leo of Naples, and the so-called Historia
de proelils.