Sarpedon's Feast: A Homeric Key to Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Bradley, Ann.

Title
Sarpedon's Feast: A Homeric Key to Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 4763A.

Description
Chaucer's Troilus derives from three reflections of the "Iliad": classical, the Christian-allegorical, and the romance. Sarpedon's feast is central to TC, with classical, Scholastic, and finally Dantesque treatment of free will, fate, and transcendence.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.