Vida e feitos de Alexandre da Macedônia: tradução e comentário de um romance de Alexandre grego.

Abstract

Life and deeds of Alexander of Macedon, attributed to Pseudo-Callisthenes, is the title of recensio β of a group of texts known as Alexander Romance, the writing of which was achieved from previous models around the 5th century A.D. With the gap of translations of the Greek versions of Alexander Romance to Brazilian Portuguese, this present research consists of an unprecedented translation followed by a study of the translated text, in which we analyze the narrative constructions of the work, which incorporate forms and methods that are characteristic of several writing genres, such as history, ancient Greek novel, letter, and biography. At first, we briefly explain the development of Alexander Romance, the authorships and translations to various languages. Then we discuss how the text uses historical narrative strategies to weave fictional and fantastic plots together. We also analyze the letters included in the romance, exchanged between Alexander and his enemies and other characters—specially how one of them approaches Alexander’s image to Odysseus’. Finally, we seek to understand Life and deeds of Alexander of Macedon as a fictional biography about Alexander the Great as well, him who was a malleable historical character, shaped according to the objectives of each author—inserted within a certain time with its given value—who writes about him.