Apollo's Holy Laurel: Troilus and Criseyde III, 542-43
- Author / Editor
- Ransom, Daniel J.
Apollo's Holy Laurel: Troilus and Criseyde III, 542-43
- Published
- Chaucer Review 41 (2006): 206-12.
- Description
- Troilus's reference to Apollo speaking "out of a tree" (TC 3.543) is likely not a reflection of Chaucer's misunderstanding Ovid. Numerous authors Chaucer may have read, including Bartholomaeus Anglicus, provide grounds for the conclusion that the oracle of Apollo was expressed through a laurel tree.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.