... attempt to challenge his famous predecessors, generated by his own ambition toward authority. Interestingly, the form of a dream-vision excuses any daring attempts on Chaucer's part to manipulate and revise the characters and themes of authoritative texts and to comment on the unreliability and lack of credibility of the traditional sources. Furthermore, the form may permit Chaucer to fulfil his own dream: to elevate himself ... the depiction of Aeneas as a "traytour- by associating Aeneas with other renown, treacherous mythological heroes' whom Ovid portrays in his Epistulae Heroidum. ...

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