Antiquity and Beyond: The Death of Troilus
- Author / Editor
- Boitani, Piero.
Antiquity and Beyond: The Death of Troilus
- Published
- Piero Boitani, ed. The European Tragedy of Troilus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), pp. 1-19.
- Description
- In the earliest Troilus myths, Troilus is "not primarily a character but a 'function'": his murder early in the Trojan War is an "omen" of Troy's impending fall. In later works, Troilus's character is more fully developed, and his death--late in the war--is part of the fall. Cressida and the heterosexual love interest do not appear until the twelfth century.
- Alternative Title
- The European Tragedy of Troilus.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.