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270: 724: 318:(1370), Pandarus plays the same role, though Chaucer's Pandarus is Criseyde's uncle, not her cousin. Chaucer's Pandarus is of special interest because he is constructed as an expert rhetorician, who uses dozens of proverbs and proverbial sayings to bring the lovers Troilus and Criseyde together. When his linguistic fireworks fail at the end of the story, the proverb and human rhetoric in general are questioned as reliable means of communication. 46: 384:
is an accusation that an individual has sold the sexual services of another. The verb "to pander" is also used in a more general sense to suggest active or implicit encouragement of someone's weaknesses.
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he is portrayed as an energetic and powerful warrior, but in medieval literature he becomes a witty and licentious figure who facilitates the affair between
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is, specifically, a bawd — a male who arranges access to female sexual favors, the manager of prostitutes. Thus, in law, the charge of
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narrowly survives the attack, though, retaliating with a deadly blow that knocks Pandarus out of the chariot. Diomedes then pursues
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The plot function of the aging lecher Pandarus in Chaucer's and Shakespeare's famous works has given rise to the English terms
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when the Duke of Omnium suspects Mrs Finn of encouraging his daughter's romance he refers to her as a 'she-Pandarus'.
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with an arrow, sabotaging a truce that could potentially have led to the peaceful return of
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Pandarus, centre, with Cressida, illustration to Troilus and Cressida by Thomas Kirk.
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Pandarus and Bitias Fight the Rutuli Before the Trojan Camp (Aeneid, Book IX)
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at close range, since Athena is protecting him from his deadly arrows, while
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Nehrkorn, Helga (October 1971). "A Homeric Episode in Vergil's Aeneid".
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are quite different from Homer's characters of the same name.
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Index

2674 Pandarus
Pandarus (genus)
Hypolimnas pandarus
Pandareus
Pandaros (sponge)

/ˈpændərəs/
/ˈpændər/
Ancient Greek
Trojan War
Iliad
Troilus
Cressida
Shakespeare
Troilus and Cressida
Iliad
Lycaon
Troy
Trojan War
Zeleia
Laodocus
Antenor
Menelaus
Helen of Troy
Diomedes
Aeneas
Diomedes
Aeneas
Aphrodite
Aeneas

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