 A tradition developed where Penthesilea entered the Trojan War because of her reverence for the Trojan hero Hector.Penthesilea appears in the "Roman de Troie" (1160) by Benoît de Sainte-Maure as a chivalric heroine, and through this became part of the medieval genre "roman antique," which recycled Greek and Roman myths in a medieval romance context.In late medieval Europe the legend was further popularised in Christine de Pizan's "City of Ladies" (1405) and John Lydgate's "Troy Book" (1420).