Book contents
- The Cambridge Guide to Homer
- The Cambridge Guide to Homer
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on the Contributors
- General Introduction
- Part I Homeric Song and Text
- Part II Homeric World
- Part III Homer in the World
- Introduction
- Homer in Antiquity
- Homer and the Latin West in the Middle Ages
- Homer in Greece from the End of Antiquity 1: The Byzantine Reception of Homer and His Export to Other Cultures
- Homer in Greece from the End of Antiquity 2: Homer after Byzantium, from the Early Ottoman Period to the Age of Nationalisms
- Homer in Renaissance Europe (1488‒1649)
- Homer in Early Modern Europe
- The Reception of Homer since 1900
- Homer: Image and Cult
- Key Topics
- Albert Bates Lord
- Allegory and Allegorical Interpretation
- Aristotle and Homer
- Athens and Homer
- Biographies of Homer
- Chaucer and Homer
- Dante and Homer
- The Homeric Question
- Milman Parry
- Plato and Homer
- Plutarch and Homer
- Shakespeare and Homer
- Jean de Sponde and Homer
- Vergil and Homer
- Simone Weil and the Iliad
- Bibliography
- Index
Chaucer and Homer
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Guide to Homer
- The Cambridge Guide to Homer
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on the Contributors
- General Introduction
- Part I Homeric Song and Text
- Part II Homeric World
- Part III Homer in the World
- Introduction
- Homer in Antiquity
- Homer and the Latin West in the Middle Ages
- Homer in Greece from the End of Antiquity 1: The Byzantine Reception of Homer and His Export to Other Cultures
- Homer in Greece from the End of Antiquity 2: Homer after Byzantium, from the Early Ottoman Period to the Age of Nationalisms
- Homer in Renaissance Europe (1488‒1649)
- Homer in Early Modern Europe
- The Reception of Homer since 1900
- Homer: Image and Cult
- Key Topics
- Albert Bates Lord
- Allegory and Allegorical Interpretation
- Aristotle and Homer
- Athens and Homer
- Biographies of Homer
- Chaucer and Homer
- Dante and Homer
- The Homeric Question
- Milman Parry
- Plato and Homer
- Plutarch and Homer
- Shakespeare and Homer
- Jean de Sponde and Homer
- Vergil and Homer
- Simone Weil and the Iliad
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chaucer’s high regard for Homer is based on the Latin tradition going back to Virgil and extending through Boethius and the thirteenth-century Historia Destructionis Troiae. Chaucer does not acknowledge Boccaccio, his primary source for Troilus ad Criseyde, but may have had access through him to the Latin translations of the Iliad and Odyssey by Leontius Pilatus.
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- The Cambridge Guide to Homer , pp. 580 - 581Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020