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Pandarus

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Pandarus , in Greek legend, a Trojan warrior. In the Trojan War (as recounted in Homer's Iliad ) he broke the truce by wounding Menelaus and soon after was killed by Diomed. In the medieval romance of Troilus and Cressida, Pandarus is the name of the lascivious intermediary between the lovers. The word pander is derived from the latter story. ... Read more
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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes Pandarus • Arras , embarrass, harass • gynandrous , polyandrous •Pancras • charas • Tatras...slumberous •Cerberus • rapturous • lecherous , treacherous •torturous • vulturous • Pandarus •slanderous • ponderous • ... Read more
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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Pandarus, in classical legend, a son of Lycaon who assisted the Trojans in their war against the Greeks. The role that he plays in Chaucer... Read more

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Queer Pandarus? Silence and sexual ambiguity in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; INTRODUCTION Is Pandarus queer? From the outset of this essay...critic resistant to my assertion that Pandarus may be read as queer, but, nonetheless...Certainly, the friendship between Pandarus and Troilus is overtly homosocial... Read more
Chaucer's TROILUS AND CRISEYDE 1.540-875.(Pandarus's role)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...lying distraught in his chamber when Pandarus enters and asks the reason for his distress...Troilus explains that he is in love. When Pandarus asks the name of the woman, Troilus again prevaricates. Pandarus does not give up and finally Troilus... Read more
Medieval Go-Betweens and Chaucer's Pandarus
Magazine article from: Arthuriana; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...MIESZKOWSKI, Medieval Go-Betweens and Chaucer's Pandarus. New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave...influence Chaucer's representation of Pandarus in Troilus and Criseyde. By drawing upon...classification. If readers have puzzled over Pandarus's disturbing agency in this doomed love... Read more
The Evolved Panderer; From the Primordial Political Soup Has Emerged a Breed Apart
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/18/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...civilization, man has pandered. In "The Iliad," Homer introduces us to Pandarus, an unlucky Trojan warrior. Pandarus returns in Chaucer, and in Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida," Pandarus is a pimp, a "pitiful goer-between" of lovers. Happily, pandering... Read more
Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde,' book 3, line 1093. (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 3/22/1993; ; 622 words ; ...centrally important scene of the poem, when Pandarus has brought Troilus to Criseyde's bedside...reading the line ironically, as expressing Pandarus's frustration at Troilus's reticence...favor of Boethian otherworldliness. And Pandarus, though a reader of old romances himself... Read more
The Title Page of Troilus Q1b: A New Reading.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 1/1/2001; ; 509 words ; ...loues, with the conceited wooing / of Pandarus Prince of Litia. The critical consensus...description of the play, calling attention to Pandarus' wooing--meaning presumably his wooing...straightforward and uncomplicated. He sees Pandarus as the subject who acts upon an object... Read more
Political pandering on the trail
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/13/2008; ; 658 words ; ...elected. It has a harsher definition. Pandarus first appears in Homer's "Iliad," but...peace to Palestine. In the Iliad, Homer's Pandarus wounds the Spartan king, Menelaus, thus...ended the Trojan War peacefully. However, Pandarus was not entirely a free agent. The gods... Read more
Five species of parasitic Copepods (siphonostomatoida: pandaridae) from the body surface of a white shark captured in Morro Bay, California (1).
Magazine article from: Pacific Science; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Dinemoura producta, D. latifolia, Echthrogaleus coleoptratus, Pandarus bicolor, and Achtheinus oblongus, were collected from the external...Lamniformes [e.g., see Hewitt 1969]). Other species, e.g., Pandarus smithii Rathbun, 1886, and Echthrogaleus coleoptratus (Guerin-Menevil... Read more
Shakespeare project off to a superb start
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/15/1987; ; 582 words ; ...Si Osborne Thersites Robert Scogin Helen Jeannette Schwaba Pandarus Bernie Landis A play by William Shakespeare, directed by Barbara...a disarming, witty Cressida. And Bernie Landis is a winning Pandarus - the pansexual, opportunistic matchmaker for the title lovers... Read more
Words: Style
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/21/1998; ; 311 words ; SHAKESPEARE has Pandarus in Troilus and Cressida say to the lusty pair: "Since I have taken...Clark's opinions have nothing to do with the sort of help the original Pandarus gave to Cressida and her man. Boccaccio and Chaucer had both done... Read more

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