The Christianization of Classical Myth: Chaucer's Use of Ovid in The Book of the Duchess
- Author / Editor
- McDonald, Rick.
The Christianization of Classical Myth: Chaucer's Use of Ovid in The Book of the Duchess
- Published
- Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 75: 76-8, 1998.
- Description
- Chaucer's version of the Ceyx-Alcyone story differs from its predecessors in ways that emphasize how love can transcend death, helping to make the consolation of the poem particularly Christian.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.