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The Roman de Troie by Benoit de Sainte-Maure - A Translation (Paperback)
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The Roman de Troie by Benoit de Sainte-Maure - A Translation (Paperback)
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First English translation of an important twelfth-century romance,
giving an account of the Trojan war and its consequences. Benoit de
Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie, dating to around 1165, is, along
with the Roman de Thebes and the Roman d'Eneas, one of the three
"romances of antiquity" (romans d'antiquite). These romances
launched the plots, themes and structures of the genre, then
blossoming in the hands of authors such as Chretien de Troyes. As
an account of the Trojan War, Benoit's work is of necessity a poem
about war and its causes, how it was fought and what its
consequences were for the combatants. But the author's choice of
the octosyllabic rhyming couplet, his fondness for description, his
ability to recount the intensity of personal struggles, and above
all his fascination with the trials and tribulations of Love, which
affect some of the work's most prominent warriors (among them Paris
and his love for Helen, and Troilus and his love for Briseida), all
combine to fashion this romance - in which events from long ago are
presented as a reflection of the poet's own feudal and courtly
worlds. This translation, the first into English, aims to bring the
poem and the author to a wider audience. It is accompanied by an
introduction and notes.
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