The Legacy of Apollo : Antiquity, Authority and Chaucerian Poetics.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (368 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Apollo as Human God: Ovid and Medieval Ovidianism -- 2 The Medieval Apollo: Classical Authority and Christian Hermeneutics -- 3 Imperial Apollo: From Virgil's Rome to Chaucer's Troy -- 4 Fragmentary Apollo: The Squire's Tale, The Franklin's Tale, and Chaucerian Self-Fashioning -- 5 Domestic Apollo: Crises of Truth in the Manciple's Tale -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
In The Legacy of Apollo, Jamie C. Fumo presents a series of connected readings of classical and medieval texts that shape the god's pre-modern legacy.