Philip Hardie

Rumour and Renown

Representations of Fama in Western Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Major study of the literary treatment of rumour and renown across the canon of authors from Homer to Alexander Pope.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 706
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1197g
• ISBN-13: 9781107475984
• ISBN-10: 1107475988
• Artikelnr.: 41610866

Autorenporträt

Philip Hardie is a Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Honorary Professor of Latin Literature in the University of Cambridge. He is one of the leading critics of Latin literature, with strong interests in the reception of classical literature, and is the author of Virgil's Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium (1986), The Epic Successors of Virgil (1993), Ovid's Poetics of Illusion (2002) and Lucretian Receptions (2009), the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Ovid (2002) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius (2007). He is currently co-editing the Renaissance volume of The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Hesiod and Homer: Virgilian beginnings
3. Virgil's Fama
4. Fame and defamation in the Aeneid
5. Ovid: Metamorphoses
6. Later epic: Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus, Nonnus
7. Roman historiography I: Livy
8. Roman historiography II: Tacitus
9. Fama and Amor
10. Fame and blame: Spenser
11. Christian conversions of Fama
12. Petrarch: Trionfi, Africa
13. Fama and power in early modern England: Shakespeare, Ben Jonson
14. Milton: Samson Agonistes
15. Plots of fame: Chaucer, Alexander Pope
16. Visual representations of Fama.