Fama and fiction in Vergil's Aeneid / Antonia Syson.

Author/creator Syson, Antonia Jane Reobone, 1973-
Format Book
Publication InfoColumbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2013.
Descriptionviii, 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 219-229) and indexes.
LCCN 2013014967
ISBN9780814212349 (cloth : alk. paper)
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