The Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure

Winner of the 2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award First English translation of an important twelfth-century romance, giving an account of the Trojan war and its consequences. 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, then blossoming in the hands of authors such as Chrétien