The Roman de Troie
Benoît de Sainte-Maure's 'Roman de Troie', dating to around 1165, is, along with the 'Roman de Thèbes' and the 'Roman d'Eneas', one of the three 'romances of antiquity'. This translation, the first into English, aims to bring the poem and the author to a wider audience. Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie, dating to around 1165, is, along with the Roman de Thèbes and the Roman d'Eneas, one of the three "romances of antiquity" (romans d'antiquité). These romances launched the plots, themes …
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- Full title :The Roman de Troie / by Benoît de Sainte-Maure ; translated by Glyn S. Burgess and Douglas Kelly.
Summary
Benoît de Sainte-Maure's 'Roman de Troie', dating to around 1165, is, along with the 'Roman de Thèbes' and the 'Roman d'Eneas', one of the three 'romances of antiquity'. This translation, the first into English, aims to bring the poem and the author to a wider audience.
Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie, dating to around 1165, is, along with the Roman de Thèbes and the Roman d'Eneas, one of the three "romances of antiquity" (romans d'antiquité). These romances launched the plots, themes and structures of the genre itself, which went on to blossom in the hands of Chrétien de Troyes. As an account of the Trojan War, Benoît's work is of necessity a poem about war and its causes, how it was fought and what its consequences were for the comabtants. 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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- Publication Date:2017.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):D.S. Brewer
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2017.
Notes
An English prose translation of the poem.
The Physical Object
- Description:viii, 475 pages ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781843844693, 1843844699
- oclc:ocn962351661
- LC Classification:PQ1429
- Dewey Decimal:841/.1
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