Ovid and the Monk's Tale of Hercules.
- Author / Editor
- Hoffman, Richard L.
Ovid and the Monk's Tale of Hercules.
- Published
- Notes and Queries 210 (1965): 406-9.
- Description
- Suggests that although Chaucer generally follows Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" in his account of the labors of Hercules, one discrepancy may have been influenced by a scholists' gloss to Ovid's "Ibis" 401-2.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations