The Romance of Thebes (Roman de Thebes)
Ferrante, Joan M. / Hanning, Robert W.
The romans d'antiquité, medieval re-makings in French of the stories of Troy, Thebes, Greece, and Rome, first appeared in the reign of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine in the twelfth century and continued to be read in England throughout the Middle Ages. Among them, the Romance of Thebes medievalizes the stories of Oedipus and Jocasta, Polynices and Etiocles, Antigone, Creon, and Theseus, and the Siege of Thebes. The medieval French re-workin...