Minerva's owl in Charles d'Orleans's English poems: a mythographic note on line 4765.

From: ANQ | Date: January 1, 1996| Author: Hodapp, William F. | Copyright information

Charles d'Orleans's Middle English poetry about the Greek goddess Venus uses an owl as a symbol of the goddess Minerva. Scholars have missed this meaning because the two goddesses are traditionally opposed, with Minerva representing wisdom and Venus sensuality. Medieval mythographers got the owl symbol from ancient times, but there was also a medieval tradition of Minerva serving Venus. Charles thus combined two contemporary practices in his poetry.

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