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Alexander Romance
The Alexander Romance, falsely attributed to Callisthenes as Pseudo-Callisthenes, is a Greek fictionalized life of Alexander the Great and among the most translated works of antiquity.
Apollonius of Tyre
Apollonius of Tyre is the fictional hero of an anonymous Latin romance, the Historia Apollonii regis Tyri, whose tale of shipwreck and reunion shaped medieval retellings and Shakespeare's Pericles.
Byzantine romance
Byzantine romance is Greek narrative fiction of the Byzantine Empire telling of lovers separated and reunited, in a 12th-century learned revival and later vernacular romances.
Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart
Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart (Le Chevalier de la Charrette) is an Old French verse romance by Chrétien de Troyes, composed around 1180, in which Lancelot rescues Queen Guenevere.
Les Faits des Romains
Les Faits des Romains (Old French Li Fet des Romains) is an anonymous Old French prose compilation, composed around 1213–1214, telling Roman history through the life of Julius Caesar.
Seven Sages of Rome
The Seven Sages of Rome, the western form of the Book of Sindbad, is a medieval collection where seven sages delay a prince's execution with daily tales.
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
The Book of John Mandeville is a travel narrative, written around 1356 in Anglo-Norman French, claiming to be by Sir John Mandeville, an English knight of St Albans.