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He was educated at the Sorbonne under Etienne De Beauvais . It was likely during his college years that he wrote a number of Latin Poem s in the Goliard ic 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 Hexameter s, full of Anachronism s; 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: Incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim In addition to his poems, Walter wrote a dialogue attacking Judaism and a treatise on the Trinity . Walter died of the Bubonic Plague early in the Thirteenth Century EXTERNAL LINKS |
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