Cassandra's Analogy: 'Troilus' V.1450-1521

Author / Editor
Anderson, David.

Title
Cassandra's Analogy: 'Troilus' V.1450-1521

Published
Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts 13:1 (1985): 1-17.

Description
Cassandra's "olde stories" of the Calydonian boar and of the siege of Thebes are not digressions but analogies that draw prophetic parallels between Troilus's situation and the circumstances of both the Trojan and the Theban wars. Past disputes led to the destruction of great ruling families, as will happen in Troy.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.