"Goddes Boteler" and "Stellifye" ("The Hous of Fame," 581, 592)
- Author / Editor
- Steadman, John M.
"Goddes Boteler" and "Stellifye" ("The Hous of Fame," 581, 592)
- Published
- Archiv für das Studium der Neuren Sprachen und Literaturen 197 (1961): 16-18.
- Description
- Offers evidence that "goddes boteler" was a "conventional epithet for Ganymede" and that the "most probable source" for Chaucer's of the phrase in HF and for his use of "stellifye" in the same context is Petrus Berchorius's moralization of Ovid.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Language and Word Studies