Livy and Augustine as Negative Models in the "Legend of Lucrece."

Author / Editor
Schwebel, Leah.

Title
Livy and Augustine as Negative Models in the "Legend of Lucrece."

Published
Chaucer Review 52.1 (2017): 29-45.

Description
Argues that Chaucer employs Livy's and Augustine's stories of Lucretia as a way to hold up feminine virtue, rather than repeating their negative attributes exhibited in the source material.

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