Mythography or Historiography? The Interpretation of Theban Myths in Late Mediaeval Literature

Author / Editor
Anderson, David.

Title
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