'Symposiacus Chaucer: 'περi των συμπóςιων η περi των óντών'
- Author / Editor
- Gutiérrez Arranz, Jose Maria.
'Symposiacus Chaucer: 'περi των συμπóςιων η περi των óντών'
- Published
- Alicia Rodríquez Álvarez, and Francisco Alanso Almeida, eds. Voices on the Past: Studies in Old and Middle English Language and Literature ([Spain]: Netbiblo, 2004), pp. 173-83.
- Description
- Surveys philosophical feasts or "lunches" (symposia) in classical literature and traces the motif in Old and Middle English texts, commenting on the "metaphorical reality of Chaucer's non-existing banquet"--the Host's promised meal.
- Alternative Title
- Voices on the Past: Studies in Old and Middle English Language and Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales