Le Roman de Troie (The Romance of Troy) by Benoît de Sainte-Maure, probably written between 1155 and 1160, is a 30,000-line epic poem, a medieval retelling...

center was located in Chinon, west of Tours. His 40,000 line poem Le Roman de Troie ("The Romance of Troy"), written between 1155 and 1160, was a medieval...

are wielded by Renaud de Montauban (and his cousin Maugris) in The Four Sons of Aymon (12th century); Antenor in the Roman de Troie (12th century); Begon...

prevent the 12th century Norman poet Benoît de Sainte-Maure from writing a lengthy adaptation, Le Roman de Troie, running 40,000 lines. The poems that were...

important Romans d'Antiquité ("Romances of Antiquity") of this period; the other two are the Roman de Thèbes (anonymous) and the Roman de Troie of Benoît de Sainte-Maure...

Troilus and Cressida. It is itself loosely based on Le Roman de Troie, by 12th-century poet Benoît de Sainte-Maure. Il Filostrato is a narrative poem on a...

was once attributed to Benoît de Sainte-Maure; but all that can be said is that the Thebes is prior to the Roman de Troie, of which Benoît was undoubtedly...

Medieval origin. The first known version is from Benoît de Sainte-Maure's poem Roman de Troie, but Chaucer's principal source appears to have been Boccaccio...

been", after the fall of Troy. In medieval romances, starting with the Roman de Troie, Briseis becomes Briseida and is the daughter of Calchas. She loves...

Twelfth-century authors, such as Benoît de Sainte-Maure (Roman de Troie [Romance of Troy, 1154–60]) and Joseph of Exeter (De Bello Troiano [On the Trojan War...

See also P. Sullivan, "Medieval Automata: The 'Chambre de beautés' in Benoît's Roman de Troie." Romance Studies 6 (1985): 1–20. Currie, Adam (1999). "The...

episodes that were not to be found in Dares nor in the famous Roman de Troie of Benoît de Sainte-Maure. The themes included the dream of Hecuba and the...

Phrygius from the late Roman period, which entwine around the Iliad material, with his own romantic sub-plot. The Roman de Troie was in turn a source for...

greater glory shines throughout his countenance. Benoît de Sainte-Maure's description in Le Roman de Troie (The Romance of Troy) is too long to quote in full...

romances of the 12th century Roman de Thèbes Roman d'Enéas (1160) Roman de Troie (1154–1173) – Benoît de Sainte-Maure Roman d'Alexandre (1177) – this romance...

Phrygia the Achilleis by Statius Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (ca. 1160), derived from Dictys and Dares. De bello Troiano by Joseph of Exeter...

some of the very earliest romances, including the Roman d'Enéas and the Roman de Troie, and in Renaud de Beaujeu's Le Bel Inconnu and the works of Gautier...

Hector. Boccaccio himself derived the story from Le Roman De Troie, by 12th-century poet Benoît de Sainte-Maure. This story is not part of classical Greek...

appears in the Roman de Troie (1160) by Benoît de Sainte-Maure as a chivalric heroine, and through this became part of the medieval genre roman antique, which...

Its main source was the Old French verse romance by Benoît de Sainte-Maure, Roman de Troie. The author claims that the bulk of the work was written in...

was invented by the twelfth century French poet Benoît de Sainte-Maure in the Roman de Troie. The woman in the love triangle is here called not Cressida...

description of Morgan is notably very similar to that in Benoît de Sainte-Maure's epic poem Roman de Troie (c. 1155–1160), a story of the ancient Trojan War in which...

sources, Dares Phrygius and Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie, and draws upon the Rawlinson Excidium Troie for episodes of the youth of Paris....

Doon de Mayence Huon de Bordeaux Renaud de Montauban King Arthur Camelot chivalry Roman d'Alixandre (Alexander Romance) Roman de Troie Roman de Thèbes...

Électronique de Chrétien de Troyes, an online Old French dictionary, Furthermore, it contains copies of the Roman de Troie and Roman de Brut. The manuscript...

sweet young queen". Benoit de Sainte-Maure wrote of the "Queen of Beauty and largesse" in the Roman de Troie, while Philippe de Thaun wrote "God save Lady...

(Sanskrit) by Jayanaka (1191–1192) Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (Old French) Roman de Brut and Roman de Rou by Wace (Old French) Poem of Almería...

The idea that Patroclus and Achilles were lovers is quite old. Many Greco-Roman authors read their relationship as a romantic one—it was a common and accepted...

such as Dictys Cretensis and Dares Phrygius and in Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie and Guido delle Colonne's Historia destructionis Troiae, which...

Verse Aeneid (19 BCE) Priapea 68 (c. 100) Roman de Troie (1155) De bello Troiano (1183) Troilus and Criseyde (c. 1380s) The Rape of the Lock (1712) The...