Roman d’Enéas
romance
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adaptation of Latin literature
- In romance: Style and subject matter
…the late Latin poet Statius; Roman d’Enéas, adapted from Virgil’s Aeneid; and Roman de Troie, a retelling by Benoît de Sainte-Maure of the tale of Troy, based not on Homer (who was not known in western Europe, where Greek was not normally read) but on 4th- and 5th-century Latin versions.…
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