The place of the legend of Alexander of Macedon in the larger context of the Old Romanian literature

• Authors: Ionescu Dan-Tudor

Title variants

PL

Miejsce legendy Aleksandra Macedońskiego w większym kontekście starej literatury rzymskiej

• Languages of publication: EN PL

Abstracts

EN

The main aim of this quite a short study was to complete the essential image of Alexander of Macedon as he appears through the pages of the Romanian Alexandria, with an overview on the so-called Old Romanian “popular” literature: somehow the true essence of this hero (Alexander of Macedon) and of his legend had eluded me many times. Compared with the Romanian History of Troy, so faithful still to Homer and his epigonoi, the Romanian Alexandria seems to the untrained reader of old Romanian literature (like the author of these lines confesses to be) a collection of wild fantasy stories. This article tries to highlight the place of this tale about Alexander the Great (his legendary story) in the larger context of the popular Old Romanian literature and the stories of some of its manuscripts and early printed versions, stories which are sometimes even stranger than the tale of the main character of the legend, Alexander himself.

PL

Głównym celem tego krótkiego badania jest ukazanie ogólnego wizerunku Aleksandra Macedońskiego, jaki wyłania się z treści rzymskiej Aleksandrii z jednoczesnym przeglądem tzw. starorzymskiej literatury „ludowej”: w jakiś sposób istota tego bohatera (Aleksandra Macedońskiego) i jego legendy wielokrotnie mi umykała. W porównaniu do rzymskiej Historii Troi, wciąż tak wiernej Homerowi i jego epigonoi, rzymska Aleksandria wydaje się niewprawionemu czytelnikowi literatury starorzymskiej (do bycia którym przyznaje się autor tych słów) kolekcją burzliwych, fantastycznych historii. Niniejszy artykuł stara się podkreślić miejsce tej opowieści o Aleksandrze Wielkim (jego legendarnej historii) w szerszym kontekście starorzymskiej literatury ludowej i historii zawartych w niektórych jej rękopisach i wczesnych starodrukach, historii, które czasami są nawet dziwniejsze niż opowieść o głównym bohaterze tej legendy, o samym Aleksandrze.

Keywords

EN

Alexandria; Alexander of Macedon; Island of the Blessed; Island of Women; Amazons; Cleitarchus; Pseudo-Callisthenes; Nagomudrii; Gates of Paradise; Old Romanian Literature

PL

Aleksandria; Aleksander Macedoński; Wyspy Szczęśliwe; Wyspa Kobiet; Amazonki; Klejtarchos; Pseudo-Kallistenes; Nagomudrii; Bramy Raju; Literatura Starorzymska

• Publisher: Instytut Historii Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego
• Journal: In Gremium. Studia nad Historią, Kulturą i Polityką
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 13
• Pages: 7-25

Contributors

author

Ionescu Dan-Tudor

• Institute Mircea Eliade-Department of Oriental Studies

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