Boethius and Pandarus: A Source in Maximian's 'Elegies'
- Author / Editor
- Mitchell, J. Allan.
Boethius and Pandarus: A Source in Maximian's 'Elegies'
- Published
- N&Q 248 (2003): 377-80.
- Description
- Argues that Maximian's Third Elegy inspired the figure of Pandarus in TC. In Maximian, Boethius is a character who is "astonishingly iconoclastic" and "richly ironic," anticipating Pandarus in several ways.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.