Fama and fiction in Vergil's Aeneid / Antonia Syson.
| Author/creator | Syson, Antonia Jane Reobone, 1973- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2013. |
| Description | viii, 240 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-229) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 2013014967 |
| ISBN | 9780814212349 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0814212344 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780814293362 (cd-rom) |
| ISBN | 0814293360 (cd-rom) |