The Legend of Dido
from Chaucer's
The Legend of Good Women

Major:


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• Virgil, Aeneid

  Book 1; Book 2; Book 4

• Ovid, Heroides 7:1-8 (cf. LGW 1312-16) -- translation (by MFV)
  
• Roman d’Eneas
  
• Filippo’s translation of the Heroides: see Meech, Sanford Brown. 'Chaucer and an Italian Translation of the Heroides.'  PMLA 45 (1960): 110-28; esp. 114-15

Minor:

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• Excidium Troie
  
  See:  Atwood, E. Bagby. 'Two Alterations of Virgil in Chaucer's Dido.' Speculum 13 (1938): 454-57;
          Atwood, E. Bagby. 'The Rawlinson Excidium Troie -- A Study of Source Problems in Mediaeval
                       Troy Literature.' Speculum 9 (1934): 379-404;
          Bradley, D. R. 'Fals Eneas and Sely Dido.' Philological Quarterly 39 (1960): 122-25.

• Ovid, Metamorphoses 14: 75-81
  
• Ovide moralisé 14: 302-596
  
• Ovid, Fasti
  
• Chaucer, House of Fame, 140-382
  
• Gower, Confessio Amantis ?2: 4-6
   

  Bibliography:

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• Frank, Robert W., Jr. Chaucer and the Legend of Good Women. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. Pp. 57-78;
  
• Hall, Louis Brewer. 'Chaucer and the Dido-and-Aeneas Story.' Mediaeval Studies 25 (1963): 148-59.
  
• Shannon, Chaucer and the Roman Poets. Pp. 196-208
  
• Wittig, Joseph S. 'The Aeneas-Dido Allusion in Chre´tien's Erec et Enide.' Comparative Literature 22 (1970): 237-53