A work inspired by the Trojan mythology, where Hector is advised on political issues by the fictional goddess Othea. In 1400 ca Christine de Pisan published her Épistre de Othéa a Hector. Ulysses playing chess in a tent in front of the walls of Troy, from KBR ms 9392, f.86v Ulysses is also mentioned as the chess inventor in the Esches Amoureux, the famous work written by Evrard de Conty in the late 14th c. and in the beginnings of the so-called Cracow poem of 1422. Opinion repeated in De Vetula of the 13th c. So seemed supported by Alexander Neckam in 1190 ca, in his De naturis rerum. However, without leaving the area of the Trojan war, other more detailed medieval treatises were giving Ulysses as the inventor. in his Historia destructionis Troiae in Latin and he was cited by John Lydgate in the Troy Book of the early 15th c. Guido de Columnis, an Italian author, repeated this approach towards the end of the 13th c. In fact, it contained fewer topics than the other two, while the main sub-cycles, that dominated by far, were the Trojan war and Alexander the great though in some different versions compared with the original Greek stories and history.īenoît de Sainte-Maure, a French poet of the 12th c., was writing in his Roman de Troie that they were the Trojans who first invented chess, tables and dice-games. It derived its thematology from Greek ones, too. The latter wasn't only on Roman mythology and legends. Jean Bodel, an Old French poet of the 12th c., had distinguished three great cycles of the medieval chansons de geste the matter of France, the matter of Britain, and the matter of Rome.
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