Portrait of Alexander as Achilles and as Odysseus: the Alexander Romance and the Homeric epics

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and as Odysseus: the Alexander Romance and the Homeric epics

Articolo

Rivista

AEVUM

Fascicolo

AEVUM - 2023 - 1

Titolo

Portrait of Alexander as Achilles and as Odysseus: the Alexander Romance and the Homeric epics

Autore

Ioannis M. Konstantakos

Editore

Vita e Pensiero

Formato

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Online da

04-2023

Doi

10.26350/000193_000152

Issn

0001-9593 (stampa) | 1827-787X (digitale)

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The main hero of the Alexander Romance combines the models of Achilles and Odysseus in a unified whole. The first part of the work is dedicated to war, the theme of the Iliad. Alexander presents many similarities with Achilles, notably a destiny of premature death accompanied by great glory. The second part describes Alexander’s travels to the edges of the earth and echoes the storyline of the Odyssey. The Odyssean travel legends are multiplied, mingled with each other, and adapted to the historical and literary conditions of the Hellenistic age. The two major “letters of wonders” in the romance (II 23-41, III 17) culminate with a Nekyia, an existential experience of the hero in an area with prominent funeral symbolisms.