Chaucer's "The Legend of Good Women," 2422.

Author / Editor
Clogan, Paul M.

Title
Chaucer's "The Legend of Good Women," 2422.

Published
Explicator 23.8 (1965): item no. 61.

Description
Suggests that Chaucer's reference to "Thorus" as a sea-god derives from a misunderstanding of Statius's "theori" in the "Achilleid" and its medieval gloss.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations