'Symposiacus Chaucer: 'περi των συμπóςιων η περi των óντών'

Author / Editor
Gutiérrez Arranz, Jose Maria.

Title
'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