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steps in the new direction were signalled by the appearance of a number of verse adaptations (called romans THE MIDDLE AGES 13 because they were written in ‘romance’ vernacular) rooted in Greek history and mythology, not taken directly from Homer but from the Latin of Virgil and particularly Ovid. There were three romances devoted to Alexander the Great (1130–90) while other romans d’antiquité told the stories of Thebes (1150), Aeneas (1160) and Troy (1165). This matière de Rome was the work