The Mythological Tradition in Chaucer's 'Complaint of Mars'
- Author / Editor
- Storm, Melvin.
The Mythological Tradition in Chaucer's 'Complaint of Mars'
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 57 (1978): 323-35.
- Description
- Though Chaucer obliquely refers to the positive interpretation of the Mars-Venus-Vulcan myth (in the gift by Vulcan to Harmonia of a brooch), he stresses the negative--that the martial man is best advised to avoid the temptations of love. The portrait of Mars as an inept and ultimately weakened lover is also reflected in TC and FranT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Complaint of Mars.