Observations on the reception of the novel about Alexander the Great in medieval orthodox Slavonic literature
ISSN: 1577-5003
Any de publicació: 2012
Número: 12
Pàgines: 91-96
Tipus: Article
Altres publicacions en: Troianalexandrina: Anuario sobre literatura medieval de materia clásica
Objectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible
Resum
The article presents the main results of a broader research on the reception of the romance about Alexander the Great in old Slavonic orthodox literature. There are two main translations of the Book of Alexander the Great in the orthodox Slavonic tradition -the "Chronography Alexandria", composed probably around the tenth or eleventh centuries in the first Bulgarian kingdom and the so-called "Serbian Alexandria" from about the thirteenth or fourtheenth centuries. The "Chronography Alexandria" is incorporated only to the historical compilations, whereas the "Serbian Alexandria" appears as a new version of the "romance" genre in the orthodox Slavonic literature and is copied in the miscellanea of mixed contents.