Chaucer's Second Hector: The Triumphs of Diomede and the Possibility of Epic in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Arner, Timothy D.
Chaucer's Second Hector: The Triumphs of Diomede and the Possibility of Epic in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Medium Aevum 79.1 (2010): 68-89.
- Description
- In TC, Diomede, rather than Troilus, functions as the second Hector, and Diomede is the only hero who escapes the cycle of Theban and Trojan violence. At a dangerous time in English history, Chaucer desires a healing ideology for England; his turn from epic and history to romance parallels problems with political discourse in the Ricardian era.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.