Mythography or Historiography? The Interpretation of Theban Myths in Late Mediaeval Literature
- Author / Editor
- Anderson, David.
Mythography or Historiography? The Interpretation of Theban Myths in Late Mediaeval Literature
- Published
- Florilegium 8 (1986): 113-39.
- Description
- Explores historicity and fictionality in medieval narratives of early. mythic Thebes. Includes brief commentary on the sources of Chaucer's knowledge of Oedipus and his conflation of Egyptian and Boeotian Thebes in KnT 1.1470ff.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Knight and His Tale