Chaucer's Semiramis

Author / Editor
Parr, Johnstone.

Title
Chaucer's Semiramis

Published
Chaucer Review 5.1 (1970): 57-61.

Description
Contends that the source of the allusion to Semiramis in MLT (2.359) is ancient historians and perhaps Boccaccio's "De Claris Mulieribus," not Dante's "Inferno."

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations