TY - ECHAP A1 - Gaullier-Bougassas, Catherine TI - La longue entrée d’Alexandre le Grand à Babylone - Des raffinements de l’esthétique épique aux enjeux idéologiques de la recomposition de l’histoire T3 - Medieval civilization, n° 9 in Rencontres M1 - 77 DO - 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-2129-7.p.0067 SN - 978-2-8124-2129-7 SP - 67 EP - 80 AB - While history makes no mention of battles prior to the surrender of Babylon, in their “Roman d’Alexandre”, Lambert le Tort and Alexandre de Paris imagine a two-fold series of long battles between Alexander and an emir of Babylon. What motivated this reinvention of Classical history ? We analyse the aesthetic motivations as well as the ideological reasons linked to the historical context of the crusades, and their apparent, but in fact problematic, convergence. PY - 2014 DA - 2014/04/17 DP - Classiques Garnier PB - Classiques Garnier CY - Paris LA - fre UR - https://classiques-garnier.com/l-oeuvre-litteraire-du-moyen-age-aux-yeux-de-l-historien-et-du-philologue-la-longue-entree-d-alexandre-le-grand-a-babylone-en.html Y2 - 2024/07/18 ER -