AURAL EKPHRASIS AND STATIAN SOUND IN CHAUCER’S TEMPLE OF MARS Leitner, Valerie Ann MA Thesis, University of Florida (2006) Abstract Geoffrey Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale, based on Giovanni Boccaccio’s Teseida and Statius’ Thebaid, contains an ekphrasis or description of the paintings inside its Temple of Mars which seems to suggest that they make noise. I believe these […]