Rumour and Renown Representations of Fama in Western Literature 1st Edition by Philip Hardie, Trinity College, Cambridge ISBN 9780521620888
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ISBN 13: 9780521620888
Author: Philip Hardie, Trinity College, Cambridge
The Latin word fama means ‘rumour’, ‘report’, ‘tradition’, as well as modern English ‘fame’ or ‘renown’. This magisterial and groundbreaking study in the literary and cultural history of rumour and renown, by one of the most influential living critics of Latin poetry, examines the intricate dynamics of their representations from Homer to Alexander Pope, with a focus on the power struggles played out within attempts to control the word, both spoken and written. Central are the personifications of Fama in Virgil and Ovid and the rich progeny spawned by them, but the book focuses on a wide range of genres other than epic, and on a variety of modes of narrating, dramatising, critiquing and illustrating fama. Authors given detailed readings include Livy, Tacitus, Petrarch, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Milton.
- Magisterial survey of literary treatments of rumour and renown from Homer to the eighteenth century by one of the most influential Latinists alive today
- Shows how some central ancient texts inform the works of central post-classical authors
- All passages in foreign languages in the main text are translated, thereby making the book accessible to all students of literature
Table of contents:
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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