Romance of Thebes
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title:
Romance of Thebes
text:
The Romance of Thebes is a poem of some 10,000 lines that appears to be based on an abridged version of the Thebaid of Statius. This view is supported by the omission of incidents and details which, in spite of the altered conditions under which the poem was composed, would naturally have been preserved in any imitation of the Thebaid, while again certain modifications of the version of Statius can hardly be due to the author's invention but point to an ancient origin. As in other poems of the s
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description:
French romance composed around 1150
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_of_Thebes
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2024-04-08T22:36:35Z
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