Libera Fama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Libera Fama write by Stratis Kyriakidis. This book was released on 2017-01-06. Libera Fama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fame and glory, rumour and reputation have fascinated through the ages. The way in which they are communicated and spread is a topic which impacts our lives on a daily basis and is an important theme in current literature. The ancient world is an ideal arena for the exploration of these issues, being a ‘closed’ period of human history that offers a secure resource for exploring the phenomenon. Philip Hardie’s Rumour and Renown: Representations of Fama in Western Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2012) is an authoritative work on this subject, and the stimulus for this volume. Continuing the on-going discussion, each one of the contributors examines further aspects of the issue in the work of Lucretius, Cicero, Virgil, Ovid, Manilius, Juvenal and the Christian poet, Prudentius. The volume offers insights into the poets’ personal quest for acclaim and – more importantly – their awareness of the qualities of the phenomenon, an awareness which, on occasion, led them to personify fame and glory. Virgil’s personification of Fama in Aeneid 4 was fame’s most important personification, influencing artists for centuries to come, and it is this subject with which the volume concludes.
Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic
Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic write by Joseph Farrell. This book was released on 2013-06-13. Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic explores the liminal status of the Augustan period, with its inherent tensions between a rhetoric based on the idea of res publica restituta and the expression of the need for a radical renewal of the Roman political system. It attempts to examine some of the ways in which the Augustan poets dealt with these and other related issues by discussing the many ways in which individual texts handle the idea of the Roman Republic. Focusing on the works of the major Augustan poets, Vergil, Horace, Propertius, and Ovid, the contributions in this collection look at the under-studied aspect of their poetry, namely the way in which they constructed and investigated images of the Roman Republic and the Roman past.
Rumour and Renown
Rumour and Renown - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rumour and Renown write by Philip R. Hardie. This book was released on 2012-02-02. Rumour and Renown available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Major study of the literary treatment of rumour and renown across the canon of authors from Homer to Alexander Pope, including readings in historiographical and dramatic texts, and authors such as Petrarch, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton. Of interest to students of classical and comparative literature and of reception studies.
Elegiae
Elegiae - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elegiae write by Sextus Propertius. This book was released on 1881. Elegiae available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy in the Hellenistic World
Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy in the Hellenistic World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy in the Hellenistic World write by Riemer Faber. This book was released on 2020-04-02. Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy in the Hellenistic World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Modern notions of celebrity, fame, and infamy reach back to the time of Homer's Iliad. During the Hellenistic period, in particular, the Greek understanding of fame became more widely known, and adapted, to accommodate or respond to non-Greek understandings of reputation in society and culture. This collection of essays illustrates the ways in which the characteristics of fame and infamy in the Hellenistic era distinguished themselves and how they were represented in diverse and unique ways throughout the Mediterranean. The means of recording fame and infamy included public art, literature, sculpture, coinage, and inscribed monuments. The ruling elite carefully employed these means throughout the different Hellenistic kingdoms, and these essays demonstrate how they operated in the creation of social, political, and cultural values. The authors examine the cultural means whereby fame and infamy entered social consciousness, and explore the nature and effect of this important and enduring sociological phenomenon.
