Rumour and Renown

Rumour and Renown
Author: Philip R. Hardie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 707
Release: 2012-02-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521620880

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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.


Rumour and Renown
Language: en
Pages: 707
Authors: Philip R. Hardie
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-02 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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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
Rumour and Renown
Language: en
Pages: 706
Authors: Philip Hardie
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-18 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The Latin word fama means 'rumour', 'report', 'tradition', as well as modern English 'fame' or 'renown'. This magisterial and groundbreaking study in the litera
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Word of Mouth
Language: en
Pages: 457
Authors: Gianni Guastella
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Word of Mouth offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the evolving personifications of the ancient concept of fama in ancient and medieval literature and in
The Rumour
Language: en
Pages: 226
Authors: Hans-Joachim Neubauer
Categories: Psychology
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German writer, journalist, and playwright Neubauer looks at the long history of rumors. He finds their nests in an ancient barber's shop, the Parisian squares o