The The Legend of Alexander of Macedon in the Late Mediaeval and Early Modern Manuscripts of the Romanian Principalities
Journal: In Gremium Studies in History Culture and Politics
Year: 2021

The main aim of this quite long study was to draw an essential image of Alexander of Macedon as he appears through the pages of the Romanian Alexandria: somehow the true essence of this hero 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 art