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Part of the book: The Theme of Love in the 'Romans d'Antiquité'

Rosemarie Jones

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 5

Modern Humanities Research Association

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Abstract.  The love interest in the Roman de Thebes is divided among the couples Laius and Jocasta, Oedipus and Jocasta, Polynices and Argia, Tydeus and Deipyle, Parthenopeus and Antigone, Atys and Ismene, Etiocles and Salemandre, Lycurgus and Eurydice and Dare le Roux and his wife. These last two couples may in fact be discounted for the purposes of this study, since there is in their case no mention of a love relationship.

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