Chaucer’s Version of the Aeneid.
- Author / Editor
- Friend, Albert C.
Chaucer’s Version of the Aeneid.
- Published
- Speculum 28, no. 2 (1953): 317-23.
- Description
- Identifies ways in which Chaucer's adaptation of Virgil’s story of Aeneas in HF "follows the arrangement of the 'Ilias' of Simon Aurea Capra, or Chevre d'Or" and "bears a resemblance especially" to an expanded version of that twelfth-century Latin poem. Comments on the chronology of events, the techniques of abbreviation, and the roles of Venus and Dido in the two medieval poems,
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification