A Chaucer-Virgil Link in 'Aeneid' XI and 'Troilus and Criseyde' V
- Author / Editor
- Frost, William.
A Chaucer-Virgil Link in 'Aeneid' XI and 'Troilus and Criseyde' V
- Published
- Notes and Queries 224 (1979): 104-05.
- Description
- In TC, 5.804, Diomede is said to be "of tonge large," a phrase that perhaps owes a debt to the "Aeneid" (9.338), where Drances is described as "largus opum et lingua melior." Koch's view in "Chaucers Belesenheit in den romischen Klassikern" that "deutliche Beziehungen zu B. VIII and XI (of the "Aeneid) sind jedoch nicht vorhanded" perhaps needs to be revised.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.