The Christianization of Classical Myth: Chaucer's Use of Ovid in The Book of the Duchess

Author / Editor
McDonald, Rick.

Title
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.