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? ... In the House of Fame Chaucer uniquely employs the qualities of both Virgil's heroic and Ovid's treacherous Aeneas in a skilful narrative from which a new, Chaucerian three-faced Aeneas emerges. ... Aeneas the Hero or Aeneas the True, the pius Aeneas "as Virgil calls his hero, is the example of true manhood. ... (ll. 258-61) For Virgil in the Aeneid, Aeneas ceases to b...

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