Chaucer's Flexippe
- Author / Editor
- McKinley, Kathryn L.
Chaucer's Flexippe
- Published
- English Language Notes 30:2 (1992): 1-4.
- Description
- Criseyde's niece Flexippe is named after Plexippus in Ovid's story of Meleager. The reference to Flexippe in TC 2 is clarified in TC 5 by Cassandra's relating this very story and giving it an allegorical interpretation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.