Erotic Transformations in the Legend of Dido and Aeneas
- Author / Editor
- Singer, Irving.
Erotic Transformations in the Legend of Dido and Aeneas
- Published
- Modern Language Notes 90. 6 (1975): 767-83.
- Description
- Assesses the attitudes toward love and internality reflected in various accounts of the Dido and Aeneas story: Virgil's "Aeneid," Ovid's "Heroides," the "Roman d'EneĢas," Chaucer's LGW, and Marlowe's "Dido Queen of Carthage." Chaucer derives his condemnation of Aeneas from Ovid, but his Dido is a more purely medieval courtly heroine.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women
- Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations