Three Ovidian Women in Chaucer's 'Troilus': Medea, Helen, Oenone
- Author / Editor
- Arn, Mary-Jo.
Three Ovidian Women in Chaucer's 'Troilus': Medea, Helen, Oenone
- Published
- Chaucer Review 15 (1980): 1-10.
- Description
- Similarities to Ovid's young Medea give Criseyde's character innocence; to Helen, guile, and reluctance to decide; while references to Oenone prefigure treachery in the connection to Paris' betrayal and the war. Ovidian references undercut the action, creating irony and richer narrative.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.