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CAMPANEUS, CAPPANEUS. Capaneus was one of the seven chieftains who joined Adrastus in the war against Thebes. Jupiter killed him with a thunderbolt (Thebaid X.827-939; Roman de Thèbes 10086-10096).

The widow of Cappaneus meets Theseus at the temple of Clemence and tells him that Creon has forbidden the burial of the dead, including their husbands' bodies, KnT 931-947.

Campaneus appears in summaries of the Theban War, Anel 59, and Cappaneus appears in Tr V.1504. [Adrastus: Amphiorax: Hemonydes: Parthonope: Polite: Tydeus]

Campaneus occurs in final rhyming position, Anel 59, a variant of Boccaccio's Campaneo, Tes II.11.5. Cappaneus occurs medially, Tr V.1504, and in final rhyming position, KnT 932.

Boccaccio, Tutte le Opere, ed. V. Branca, II: 300; R.A. Pratt, "Chaucer's Use of the Teseida." PMLA 62 (1947): 605, n. 23; Roman de Thèbes, ed. L. Constans, I: 500; Roman de Thèbes (The Story of Thebes), trans. J.S. Cole, 237; Statius, Thebaid, ed. and trans. J.H. Mozley, II: 378-389.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
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