Multiplex Sermo the ‘Manifold Speech’ of Fama in Virgil’s Aeneid

Tamás, Ábel (2012) Multiplex Sermo the ‘Manifold Speech’ of Fama in Virgil’s Aeneid. Acta Antiqua, 52 (4). pp. 339-348. ISSN 0044-5975

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Abstract

In this paper, I establish a connection between the manifold character of Fama as reported by Virgil in Aen. 4. 173 ff. and her ‘manifold speech’ (multiplex sermo) in the framework of a narratological reading. According to my interpretation, the short fama of the Virgilian Fama (4. 191-194), as a spectacular example of ‘polyphonic narrative’, radicalises and thus domesticates the dangers inherent in the epic discourse itself.

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