@inbook{10.3138/j.ctt2tv35t.9, ISBN = {9781442641709}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt2tv35t.9}, abstract = {From Ovid’s amatory works to the mythographic manuals considered in the previous chapter, Apollo’s dissemination ofveritas, crucial to the authenticity of vatic discourse and the dynamics of illumination, has recurrently emerged as fallible – even, in some instances, counterfeit. When Apollo’sveritasdid not, as inArs amatoria, destabilize its own premises, it posed a threat to competing Christian structures of enlightenment that prompted tactics of neutralization ranging from overt denunciation to strategic cooption, paradoxically attesting to its continued allure. In Chaucer’sTroilus and Criseyde, the mythology ofveritasis redefined in erotic terms as the ideal of ‘trouthe’; plagued}, bookauthor = {JAMIE C. FUMO}, booktitle = {The Legacy of Apollo: Antiquity, Authority, and Chaucerian Poetics}, pages = {124--162}, publisher = {University of Toronto Press}, title = {Imperial Apollo: From Virgil’s Rome to Chaucer’s Troy}, year = {2010} }