Fama and Fiction in Vergil’s Aeneid /

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Main Author: Syson, Antonia Jane Reobone, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The seams of fiction in epic and novel
  • What Turnus sees
  • Classifying fama
  • Chapter previews
  • Monstrous fama
  • Fama's tongues
  • Jupiter's bargain
  • Sinon's fama
  • Matter out of place I: across the Styx
  • Dirt and disorder
  • Daedalean excesses
  • Misenus and the substance of fama
  • Putting Palinurus in his place
  • This and that
  • Memories of the harpy
  • When "that" becomes "this"
  • Recognizing divine authority
  • Matter out of place II: Nisus and Euryalus
  • Fama evaluated
  • Dirty fighting
  • The order of metamorphosis
  • "Uidi ipse"
  • Cybele and Jupiter's order
  • Slithery changes
  • Venus' fictions
  • What Amata sees
  • Reading for the novel
  • How to do things with birds
  • Rumors
  • "Accipio agnoscoque deos"
  • Juturna's fictional truth
  • Afterword: swan song.