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Aquiles en Portugal: Un aspecto de las versiones peninsulares del Roman de Troie

1992; University of Lisbon; Volume: 20; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1484/j.euphr.5.126329

2736-3082

Helena de Carlos Villamarín,

Archaeological and Historical Studies

Several peninsular texts composed between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries locate in Portugal the ancient legend after which Thetis hid his son Achilles between the daughters of Lycomedes, Scyros’king. The Cronica Troyana made at the request of Alphonsus XI precises the place, situating Achilles’hiding place at the monastery of ≪Achelas≫. Portuguese writers of the seventeenth century who have treated of the problematic convent of Chelas, in Lisbon, mention again the legend as related to epigraphic findings which took place in that monastery and that led to consider it as an ancient vestals’ temple.