Notes page 145 Notes 1. The stories of Pheton, Icarus, and Pygmalion are from Ovid.
Cupid compassionately changes the bridegroom into a man.
Of these stories, all but Rosiphelee and Jepthah's Daughter are at least partially from Ovid. Rosiphelee is similar to a story in Andreas Capellanus' De Amore , though Gower has altered it considerably, and Jepthah's Daughter is from Judges xi. That this reasoning apparently has little to do with the story of the pagan love affair he then describes does not seem to occur to him. Protesilaus is the king who is warned by his wife that his destiny will be death if he fights at Troy. The Biblical King Saul is warned by Samuel that he and his son Jonathas will die on the first day of battle if he chooses to fight.