Synthèse Oedipe Roi Sophocle

religion and promoted a new collective ideal of service. About a hundred chansons de geste (from Latin gesta, feats, exploits) survive from the end of the eleventh century to the fourteenth. They are grouped (by content, not date) into the Cycle du Roi (which centres on Charlemagne), the cycle of Doon de Mayence, ancestor of the rebel barons of the Narbonne clan (who include Raoul de Cambrai, Ogier le Danois and Girart de Roussillon), and the cycle of Garin de Monglane, also known as the cycle of