Mercury, Argus, and Chaucer's Arcite: "Canterbury Tales" I(A) 1384-90.
- Author / Editor
- Hoffman, Richard L.
Mercury, Argus, and Chaucer's Arcite: "Canterbury Tales" I(A) 1384-90.
- Published
- Notes and Queries 210 (1965): 129-29.
- Description
- Reinforces previous arguments that the immediate source of Chaucer's description of "Mercury the slayer of Argus" in KnT is Ovid's "Metamorphoses" 1.671-72, adding that, like Argus, Arcite finds death by listening to the "persuasive and deceitful words of the god of eloquence."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations