Abstract
The present article provides an analysis of the allegorical explanations of the myths of Achilles contained in the anonymous French poem Ovide moralisé (ca. 1320). In addition, the article offers a comparison between these explanations and the corresponding explanatory passages of the Parisian version of book 15 (known as the Ovidius moralizatus) of Pierre Bersuire’s moralized encyclopedia Reductorium morale. In the prologue to the hitherto inedited Parisian version of the Ovidius moralizatus, Bersuire declares that he borrows many explanations from the Ovide moralisé. Hence, the article’s main purpose is to assess to what extent Bersuire’s explanations of the myths of Achilles depend on the Ovide moralisé.
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