Fama and Fiction in Vergil's Aeneid / Antonia Syson.
| Author/creator | Syson, Antonia Jane Reobone, 1973- |
| Other author | Project Muse. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2013. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015) |
| Description | 1 online resource (288 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available: |
| Subjects |
| Series | Book collections on Project MUSE. UNAUTHORIZED |
| 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 and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013014967 |
| ISBN | 9780814271186 |
| ISBN | 0814271189 |