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Céline Benmessaoud Lareo
As a basis of Western Culture, Classical Antiquity nourishes Romance languages and literatures with its numberless heroic figures, whose motifs and deeds are recreated, in the field of French Language, in three romans of the XIlth century: Roman de Thebes, Enéas, and Roman de Troie of Benoit de Sainte-Maure; these works share, in fact, such a cIear doubt with Greek-Roman cultures that critics use the term antique to mention them. This phenomenon of rewriting antiquity matters is not lacking in interest, since its study puts forward some questions beyond the mere accuracy with respect to the source used. This articIe is focused, to these purposes, in the configuration of urban space in Eneas and in Roman de Troie, whose construction, or reconstruction, in the case of Troy, involves not onIy an aesthetic reflection, but also an ideological and polítical one
