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OENONE, a nymph and shepherdess, married the Trojan prince Paris while he was a shepherd in Phrygia. He deserted her after Venus promised him the most beautiful woman in the world (Heroides V; RR 13215-13218).

Paris, false to Oënone, appears in the blazon de faulse amours, HF I.399. Pandarus relates a summary of her letter, from Heroides V, Tr I.652-665, in which she says that Phebus, god of medicine, could not cure himself of love for King Amete's daughter. [Amete: Paris: Venus]

The name appears in final rhyming position, HF I.399; Tr I.654.


M. Arn, "Three Ovidian Women in Chaucer's Troilus: Medea, Helen, Oënone." ChauR 15 (1980): 1-10; Ovid, Her, ed. and trans. G. Showerman, 56-69; RR, ed. E. Langlois, IV:11, RR, trans. C. Dahlberg, 228.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.

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