EN390 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Tyrant, Palamon And Arcite, Apposition
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You may use class material, but you do not have to cite lecture notes. Ancient greece but roman gods and christian references. Begins with a latin moif: sources to consider, wrote outside of tct and drafted it in at some point, translation and free adaptation of a poem by boccaccio. Occurs in the world of athens with focus of theseus as the hero at the start. Appositions of the beginning of the knights tale: two things thrown together that are unrelated. Duke was lord and governor with military prowess. Greece and chivalry do not go together: chivalry would go with arthurian, we would associate greece with pedigree and oldness (record ancestry, greek heroes are like hercules and achilles. Much more dominant that chivalric (pure aggression celebrated) Demi-god aspect: knowledge and philosophy, troy is destroyed is a common idea of greek civilization. It reached a height and then was just destroyed: focus on lust rather than love, divine intervention.
