Yet what is Chaucer's purpose in the House of Fame, and how does the combat between the Virgilian and Ovidian tradition that creates the three-faced Aeneas of Book I fit into the unity of the poem? ... Reading the inscription that he sees on a brass tablet in the temple, Geffrey', Chaucer's dreamer/narrator, recalls the opening lines of the Aeneid: I wol now say, if I kan, The armes and also the man That first came, thorgh his destanee, Fugityfe of Troy contree, In Itayle with ful coche pyne, Unto the strondes of Lavyne (ll. 143-48) The inscription strictly follo...

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