Othea, goddess of prudence, writes to the young Hector of Troy with a hundred short texts, each a myth or fable from antiquity followed by a moral gloss for the knight and an allegory for the soul. This is Stephen Scrope’s fifteenth-century English translation, dedicated to Sir John Fastolf, edited from a Longleat manuscript by George F. Warner for the Roxburghe Club in 1904.
A rare window on how the late Middle Ages read Ovid and the Trojan legends, with glossary and index for the Middle English. Download the free EPUB.