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Author:   Gianni Guastella (Professor of Latin Language and Literature, Professor of Latin Language and Literature, University of Siena)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.824kg
ISBN:  

9780198724292

ISBN 10:   0198724292
Pages:   458
Publication Date:   19 January 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations 0: Introduction 0.1 Hendrik Goltzius, Fame and Virtue (1586) 0.2 Prosopon/persona 0.3 Forms of Fama 1: Flying Information 1.1 Movement in Space 1.2 Winged bodies, divine messengers 1.3 Epea pteroenta: the flight of the word 1.4 'Ce télégraphe est un mystère social' 1.5 An uncertain point of departure, no destination 1.6 Mysterious testimonies 2: Lat. Fama 2.1 Fama a fando dicta 3: True and False 3.1 In court 3.2 A rumoribus, contra rumores 3.3 Fama, nomen incerti 4: Producers and Performers of Rumour 4.1 Modern theories on rumour and gossip 4.2 The multimedia transmission of information 4.3 The instability of rumours 4.4 Fama and rumor 5: Authority 5.1 Auctor 5.2 Believing someone s words 5.3 A curious messenger 6: Giving Rumour a Body 6.1 Homer, Hesiod 6.2 The cult of Pheme 6.3 Fama embodied 6.4 Fama disembodied 7: Beyond Death 7.1 Fama and gloria: Cicero, Boethius, Augustine 7.2 'Vana Gloria', 'Gloria Mondana' 7.3 'Passan vostri trionfi e vostre pompe': Petrarch and glory 8: Giving Glory a Body 8.1 Figures without iconographic models: Glory and Vainglory 8.2 The first images of modern Fama : the Glory of illustrious men 8.3 The image of Worldly Glory 8.4 From the Triumph of Gloria del popol mondano to the Triumphus Fame 8.5 A composite triumphal scenario 9: Contaminations 9.1 Figurative contaminations 9.2 Integrating Rumour and Glory 10: Chaucer, House of Fame 10.1 A pagan majesty 10.2 Fame and Fortune: a capricious judgment 10.3 Where tidings are born 10.4 A playful fictional universe 11: Conclusion Bibliographical References Index

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Overall this is a valuable contribution to the expanding field of fama-studies, a work of high intelligence and exemplary scholarship. * Philip Hardie, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * In this extremely impressive book Guastella has given us a fascinating study of fama. This is a book of truly impressive learning. It ranges widely and authoritatively, moving from the Greco-Roman world through the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Guastella seems to be at home in every age and in every sub-fi eld of scholarship, offering fascinating and convincing readings of both texts and images, taking his readers from Homer to Chaucer, via Vergil, Ovid, Hendrik Goltzius, and much else. * Damien P. Nelis, Museum Helveticum *

Overall this is a valuable contribution to the expanding field of fama-studies, a work of high intelligence and exemplary scholarship. * Philip Hardie, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

Author Information

Gianni Guastella is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Siena. His research interests focus mainly on Roman theatre and its reception in the culture of the medieval and Renaissance periods. He has published widely on topics ranging from the theatre of Plautus, Archaic Latin metre, and the reception of Apuleius, to family relationships in the Roman world, including authored monographs on Terence's comedies and Seneca's tragedies, an edited volume on the rediscovery of classical theatre in the Modern period, and commentaries on two of Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars.

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