Benoît de Sainte-Maure's <I>Roman de Troie</I>, dating to around 1165, is, along with the <I>Roman de Thèbes</I> and the <I>Roman d'Eneas</I>, one of the three "romances of antiquity" (<I>romans d'antiquité</I>). These romances launched the plots, themes and structures of the ge…