Pallas Athena and the Threefold Choice in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Orr, Patricia R.
Pallas Athena and the Threefold Choice in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Jane Chance, ed. The Mythographic Art: Classical Fable and the Rise of the Vernacular in Early France and England (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1990), pp.159-76.
- Description
- Traces the allegorical tradition of the Judgment of Paris from Fulgentius through Bersuire and other fourteenth-century writers (especially sources of the Troilus story) and examines Chaucer's use of and allusions to the myth. The journey of Troilus unifies TC through the three choices or experiences: wealth, lust, and contemplation.
- Contributor
- Chance, Jane,ed.
- Alternative Title
- The Mythographic Art: Classical Fable and the Rise of the Vernacular in Early France and England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.