Editing Pandarus (section)

==Later literature==
[[File:Pandarus and Bitias Fight the Rutuli Before the Trojan Camp (Aeneid, Book IX) MET ES5304.jpg|thumb|Pandarus and Bitias Fight the Rutuli Before the Trojan Camp (Aeneid, Book IX) ]]
Pandarus appears in ''[[Il Filostrato]]'' by [[Giovanni Boccaccio]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Il Filostrato Critical Essays |url=https://www.enotes.com/topics/il-filostrato |website=eNotes |access-date=12 December 2018 |language=en}}</ref> in which he plays the role of a go-between in the relationship of his cousin Criseyde and the Trojan prince Troilus, the younger brother of Paris and Hector. Boccaccio himself derived the story from ''Le Roman De Troie'', by 12th-century poet [[Benoît de Sainte-Maure]]. This story is not part of [[Greek mythology|classical Greek mythology]]. Both Pandarus and other characters in the medieval narrative who carry names from the ''[[Iliad]]'' are quite different from Homer's characters of the same name.

In [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]’s poem ''[[Troilus and Criseyde]]'' (1370), Pandarus plays the same role, though Chaucer's Pandarus is Criseyde's uncle, not her cousin.<ref name="crane" />  Chaucer's Pandarus is of special interest because he is constructed as an expert rhetorician, who uses dozens of proverbs and proverbial sayings to bring the lovers Troilus and Criseyde together. When his linguistic fireworks fail at the end of the story, the proverb and human rhetoric in general are questioned as reliable means of communication.<ref>Richard Utz, "''Sic et Non'': Zu Funktion und Epistemologie des Sprichwortes bei Geoffrey Chaucer,” ''Das Mittelalter: Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung'' 2.2 (1997), 31-43.</ref> 

[[William Shakespeare]] used the medieval story again in his play ''[[Troilus and Cressida]]'' (1609).  Shakespeare's Pandarus is more of a bawd than Chaucer's, as well as being lecherous and degenerate.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pandarus |url=https://www.playshakespeare.com/troilus-and-cressida/characters/3411-pandarus |website=www.playshakespeare.com |access-date=12 December 2018 |language=en-gb}}</ref>

In ''[[The Duke's Children]]'' by [[Anthony Trollope]] when the Duke of Omnium suspects Mrs Finn of encouraging his daughter's romance he refers to her as a 'she-Pandarus'.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Trollope |first1=Anthony |title=The Duke's Children |date=2011 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=9780199578382 |pages=40, 522 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W5z0N1sc6JQC&q=she-Pandarus&pg=PA522 |language=en}}</ref>

In "[[The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea]]" by [[Yukio Mishima]], Pandarus is mentioned briefly during an internal contemplation by the character Ryuji Tsukazaki.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea |url=https://archive.org/stream/TheSailorWhoFellFromGraceWithTheSea_201607/The-Sailor-Who-Fell-From-Grace-with-the-Sea-Full-Text_djvu.txt |via=archive.org |access-date=12 December 2018 |date=1963}}</ref>