Robert R. Edwards

This is fairly full selections from John Lydgate's Middle English translation and expansion of Guido delle Colonne's Latin Historia Destructionis Troiae based on Benoit de Saint Maure's French Roman de Troie based in turn on the post-Homeric Troy legends of "Dares and Dictys" which purported to be eyewitness accounts of the war and covered it much more fully than the surviving Homeric poems did. Considered as literature, like most of Lydgate, it is only middling, but it is very valuable as summing up what a late medieval English reader would have known about Troy.… (mehr)