Chaucer's Moon: Cinthia, Diana, Latona, Lucina, Prosperpina
- Author / Editor
- De Weever, Jacqueline.
Chaucer's Moon: Cinthia, Diana, Latona, Lucina, Prosperpina
- Published
- Names 34 (1986): 154-74.
- Description
- Each of the five names Chaucer uses for the moon goddess denotes a particular aspect of the goddess. A study of these names in TC, FranT, KnT, and MerT and of the functions they denote helps us understand the personalities of the women who invoke her and over whose lives she presides.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.