Boethius and Pandarus: A Source in Maximian's 'Elegies'

Author / Editor
Mitchell, J. Allan.

Title
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.