Livy and Augustine as Negative Models in the "Legend of Lucrece."
- Author / Editor
- Schwebel, Leah.
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