f Carthage et Troie: transit et aboutissement des aspirations dynastiques

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 XIIth century: Roman de Thèbes, Enéas, and Roman de Troie of Benoît de Sainte-Maure; these works share, in fact, such a clear 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 article 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 only an aesthetic reflection, but also an ideological and political one.