From Gorgias to Troilus.

Author / Editor
Craig, Hardin.

Title
From Gorgias to Troilus.

Published
In MacEdward Leach, ed. Studies in Medieval Literature in Honor of Albert Croll Baugh (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1961), pp. 97-106.

Description
Comments on thematic similarities between Plato's "Gorgias," Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy," and several of Chaucer's works, observing in TC a particular concern shared by Plato and Boethius: the "futility of earthly existence."

Contributor
Leach, MacEdward, ed.

Alternative Title
Studies in Medieval Literature in Honor of Albert Croll Baugh.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations