Matter of Rome

The Matter of Rome is the literary cycle of Greek and Roman mythology with episodes from the history of classical antiquity, focusing on military heroes like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. The medieval poet Jean Bodel divided the literary cycles into three: the Matter of Rome, the Matter of France, and the Matter of Britain.
Old French literature was largely made up of classical topics, mostly derived from Dictys Cretensis and Dares Phrygius, stories based on Homer.