1. Middle English – The Canterbury Tales written 37.

Euripides – ninety-five plays to him

2. Ferne halwes – distant shrines 38. Dionysus – God of fertility and wine
3. Pilgrimage – a religious journey made to a shrine 39. Socrates – classical Greek philosopher, one of the founders of western philosophy
4. The Feudal Order – the knight and his squire 40. Plato – founded the academy
5. The church – the monk and the nun 41. Aristotle – creation of formal logic and the development of literary criticism
6. The merchant or professional class – the miller and the doctor 42. Theocritus – creator of pastoral poetry
7. The Ellesmere Chaucer – a prime authority for the text of canterbury tales (23) 43. Septuagint – from Latin septuaginta (seventy)
8. The knight – a perfect representative of his estate 44. Timaeus – completed his great historical work, first writer to see clearly the importance of western Greek
9. The squire – knight’s son 45. Eros – God of love and attraction
10. The yeoman – knight’s only servant 46. Erebos – God of darkness
11. The prioress – called madame eglentyne, very gentle lady (by sainte loy) (amor vincit omnia) 47. Chronos – God of time
12. The monk – an outsider, who is allowed to leave the monastery to inspect the abbey’s property 48. Chaos – nothingness from which all else sprang
13. The merchant – impresses the other pilgrims by all the status symbols of rich 49. Hypnos – God of sleep
14. The clerk – represents the typical clericus 50. Hemera – goddess of day
15. The sergeant of the law – represented as an excellent attorney 51. The Ourea – gods of the mountain
16. The franklin – rides in the company of the man of law 52. Pontus – God of the sea
17. The five guildsmen – haberdasher, carpenter, weaver, dyer and tapestry maker 53. Iapetus – God of morality
18. The cook – roger, hired to prepare meals for five guildsmen 54. Hyperion – God of light
19. The shipman – a dark, huge fellow from Dartmoor (Maudeleyne) 55. Oceanus – God of all encircling river oceans
20. The doctor of medicine – has a special love for gold, of which he gained a great amount 56. Rhea – Goddess of fertility
21. The wife of bath – dame alison who is deaf on her left ear 57. Asteria – goddess of nocturnal oracles
22. The parson – very rich in morals and religious though 58. Helios – God of the sun
23. The plowman – poor parson’s brother in blood and spirit 59. Epimetheus – God of afterthought and father of excuses
24. The miller – robin, is a stout carl a thikke knarre 60. Zeus – king of the Gods
25. The manciple – steward for a law school 61. Poseidon – God of the sea, rivers, floods, droughts, earthquakes, known as earth shaker
26. The reeve – Oswald has been the manager of a large estate in baldswell, Norfolk 62. Hestia – virgin goddess of the earth
27. The summoner – a church official who summons accused sinners before the archdeacon’s 63. Hephaestus – crippled God of fire, metal working and crafts
28. The pardoner – friend of corrupt summoner 64. Hades – king of the underworld and dead
29. The host – called harry bailey and owner of tabard inn (southwark where the pilgrims assemble for journey) 65. Dionysus – God of wine, parties and festivals
30. The second nun – accompanies the prioress on her pilgrimage 66. Aphrodite – Goddess of love, beauty, desire and pleasure.
31. The nun’s priest – aside from her secretary she is accompanied by three priests 67. Apollo – God of music, arts, knowledge, healing, plague
32. The canon’s yeoman – is introduced after the second nun has told her tale 68. Ares – God of war, bloodshed, violence
33. Sappho – written to be sung while accompanied by music, archaic Greek poet 69. Athena – goddess of intelligence and skills
34. Pindar – ancient Greek lyric poet from thebes 70. Demeter – goddess of grain agriculture and harvest
35. Aeschylus – describes as the father of tragedy
36. Sophocles – plays written later than those of Aeschylus and earlier than Euripides