Walter of Chatillon
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Walter of Châtillon was a 12th century French writer and theologian who wrote in the Latin language. He was educated at the Sorbonne under Etienne de Beauvais. It was likely during his college years that he wrote a number of Latin poems in the Goliardic manner that found their way into the Carmina Burana collection. During his lifetime, however, he was more esteemed for a long Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great, the Alexandreis, sive Gesta Alexandri Magni, a long poem in hexameters, full of anachronisms; he depicts the Crucifixion of Jesus as having already taken place during the days of Alexander the Great. Most of this long poem has been forgotten by now; it is remembered chiefly for one line:
In addition to his poems, Walter wrote a dialogue attacking Judaism and a treatise on the Trinity. He died of the bubonic plague early in the 13th century.
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