Rumour and renown : representations of Fama in Western literature

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Classical Antiquity Studies Medieval Literature and History Renaissance Literature and Culture

Abstract

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.

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