Chaucer and Chalcidius: The Platonic Origins of the 'Hous of Fame'

Author / Editor
Grennen, Joseph E.

Title
Chaucer and Chalcidius: The Platonic Origins of the 'Hous of Fame'

Published
Viator 15 (1984): 237-62.

Description
Although Chaucer typically "covered his tracks," a major source of HF is Plato's "Timaeus" in the translation and commentary of Chalcidius.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.