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The frame story of the poem, as set out in the 858 lines of Middle English which make up the General Prologue, is of a religious pilgrimage. The narrator, Geoffrey Chaucer, is in The Tabard Inn in Southwark, where he meets a group of 'sundry folk' who are all on the way to Canterbury, the site of the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket, a martyr reputed to have the power of healing the sinful.
Zephyrus relief from the Tower of the Winds, Athens. Zephyrus, along with his brother Boreas, is one of the most prominent of the Anemoi; they are frequently mentioned together by poets, and along with a third brother, Notus (the south wind) they were seen as the three useful and favourable winds (the east wind, Eurus, seen as bad omen). [1]
Instead, the sisters were plotting to convince Cupid to take one of them to be his wife. The two traveled to the peak and jumped, thinking Zephyrus would catch them and take them to the palace as he did the last time. Zephyrus, however, knowing what was truly in their hearts, ignored them and the two sisters fell to their deaths. [16]
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Chloris, a nymph loved by Zephyrus (West Wind). [1] Chloris, wife of Neleus, king of Pylos. [2] It is, however, not always clear whether she or the below Chloris is mentioned in this role. Chloris, one of the Niobids. [3]
In the third section, the pisteis (arguments), Lysias has Euphiletos justify his actions legally. Euphiletos argues that he was legally entitled to murder Eratosthenes for committing adultery with his wife, citing several laws whose text is no longer preserved, including one inscribed on a column on the Areopagus. He denies that Eratosthenes ...
A man, who is weighing the jewels and pieces of gold on the table in front of him sits next to his wife who is reading a book of devotion with an illustration of the Virgin and Child. [1] The couple is not dressed as members of nobility, but rather as well-to-do burghers of Antwerp , where the painting was made.
There is considerable discussion among scholars as to which of his first two wives Milton could refer to. Samuel Johnson , in the Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets , suggests his second wife, Katherine Woodcock, and comments that "her husband honoured her memory with a poor sonnet".