Pheme

Fama is in Roman mythology, the deity of Fame as well as the rumor. The Fama corresponds in Greek mythology, the Pheme (Greek Φήμη ). Personification of Glory is among the Romans nor the Gloria.

• 3.1 In the performing arts
• 3.2 In fiction

Pheme and Ossa

In Homer Pheme appears as Ossa ( Ὄσσα ). Once - in the Iliad - the term " Pheme " the glory which accompanies the Greek army as a messenger of Zeus, in the other - in the Odyssey - it embodies the rumor.

Originally called Pheme - etymologically related to phemi, " talk " - just a message or a statement unclear origin, in contrast to a derived from a known source message. It was Pheme, the rumor that the appearance - but also the sign and the omen. In Sophocles' drama Oedipus the King she is a child of Elpis, the personified hope.

In Hesiod's Works and Days, she is described as allegory and quasi- deity:

In mythological texts, there are few vivid illustrations of FIG. Multiple appear Pheme at Nonno of Panopolis; there she is described as winged and many-tongued creature, which corresponds to its allegorical character perfectly. It lacks personal contour and also a cult, it seems not to have been. Only Aeschines tells of a after the Battle of Eurymedon built by the Athenian altar of Pheme, mentioned by Pausanias as a curiosity and evidence that the Athenians simply build an altar to each. Aeschines distinguishes between Pheme as something by itself Appearing and of the individual human belang end Diabole ( Διαβολή "slander" ). In contrast, in Achilles Tatius ' the Pheme " a daughter of Diabole:

Fama

In the Latin literature, the Fama is to be found in the first place in Virgil and Ovid. In addition, it also appears when Gaius Valerius Flaccus, where it is a tool of punishment of women Lemnian by Aphrodite. The rumor that they wanted to leave their husbands, the women incites to murder them. Although it acts as a demonic being, Fama and has been described here ambivalent: they belong neither to heaven nor hell, it is said, but hover in between. Who will hear it, laugh about it at first, but will not get rid of for so long, to Cities tremble under the blow garrulous tongues. In the Thebaid of Statius, Publius Papinius finally Fama appears as a kind of fury and companion of the god Mars.

Fama in the Aeneid

In Virgil's Aeneid Fama is a daughter of Gaia and a giantess. At first she is small, but when they moved, they swell to gigantic size until it fills all the space between heaven and earth. Under each feather of her two wings there is a gaping eye, a chattering mouth and a tipped ear. At night she is flying back and forth between earth and heaven, like the squirrel Ratatöskr that flits back and forth in the world ash Yggdrasil, to assist in the exchange of animosities between the house end up in the top of eagle and the gnawing at the root dragon Nidhoggr. What common Fama, their is the same, it has the herald of the truth, and the slanderer equally. This can be seen then also in how they distributed the ( true ) message from the rendezvous of Aeneas and the Carthaginian queen Dido ( mythology) in the land: A Trojan prince had come, the Queen was forfeited to him and hearing and the two of them were spending the winter in Lustraserei and would forget about the business of government.

The castle of Fama in Ovid

Even Ovid in his Metamorphoses developed a complex allegory of Fama: At the center of the world, between heaven and earth, between land and sea, equally close and equally distant, a place seen and monitored from which everything, every voice heard and located each word is recorded. There Fama 've built on a high peak of their castle, a doorless Watchtower with a thousand holes, completely consisting of hallendem ore, which would double every sound and would double again. Inside there is never silence, but also no clear word, but only murmur and half- understandable hissing. Here was the home of Credulitas, the " gullibility " of error, the " error " of Laetitia, the " arrogance " of Susurri, the " whisper ", and of Seditio, the " discord ". In modern times, Fama appears mainly as a personification of Fame. Your attribute is a trumpet with which they spread the glorious Indeed, according loudly.

Reception

In the performing arts

A still image of Fama is located on the dome of the Octagon the Dresden Art Academy - a gilded copper repoussé work, the Dresden sculptor Robert Henze (1890) designed Hermann Heinrich Howaldt started from Braunschweig and Paul Rinck life, also a Dresden, has completed in 1893. Your laurel wreath embodies the artist fame.

In Fiction

Fama is a character in Christopher Ransmayr novel The Last World, as peddler of Tomi and mother of the traitor and compulsive babbler Battus, they spread rumors.