 M. C. Howatson, in "The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature" (1989), voices the traditional view the Milesian tale is the source "of such medieval collections of tales as the "Gesta Romanorum", the "Decameron" of Boccaccio, and the "Heptameron" of Marguerite of Navarre".Gottskálk Jensson of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, however, offers a dissenting view or corrective, arguing the original Milesian tale was