This book traces the roots of modern notions of celebrity, fame, and infamy back to the Hellenistic period of classical antiquity, when sensational personages like Cleopatra of Egypt and Alexander the Great became famous world-wide.
This book traces the roots of modern notions of celebrity, fame, and infamy back to the Hellenistic period of classical antiquity, when sensational personages like Cleopatra of Egypt and Alexander the Great became famous world-wide.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Distinctives of Hellenistic Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy Riemer A. Faber 1. Fama and Infamia: The Tale of Grypos and Tryphaina Sheila L. Ager 2. Models of Virtue, Models of Poetry: The Quest for "Everlasting Fame" in Hellenistic Military Epitaphs Silvia Barbantani 3. Can Powerful Women be Popular? Amastris: Shaping a Persian Wife into a Famous Hellenistic Queen Monica D’Agostini 4. Remelted or Overstruck: Cases of Monetary Damnatio Memoriae in Hellenistic Times François de Callataÿ 5. Ptolemaic Officials and Officers in Search of Fame Christelle Fischer-Bovet 6. Lemnian Infamy and Masculine Glory in Apollonios’ Argonautica Judith Fletcher 7. The "Good" Poros and the "Bad" Poros: Infamy and Honour in Alexander Historiography Timothy Howe 8. Writing Monarchs of the Hellenistic Age: Renown, Fame, and Infamy Jacqueline Klooster 9. Creating Alexander: The "Official" History of Kallisthenes of Olynthos Waldemar Heckel References Contributors Index
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Distinctives of Hellenistic Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy Riemer A. Faber 1. Fama and Infamia: The Tale of Grypos and Tryphaina Sheila L. Ager 2. Models of Virtue, Models of Poetry: The Quest for "Everlasting Fame" in Hellenistic Military Epitaphs Silvia Barbantani 3. Can Powerful Women be Popular? Amastris: Shaping a Persian Wife into a Famous Hellenistic Queen Monica D’Agostini 4. Remelted or Overstruck: Cases of Monetary Damnatio Memoriae in Hellenistic Times François de Callataÿ 5. Ptolemaic Officials and Officers in Search of Fame Christelle Fischer-Bovet 6. Lemnian Infamy and Masculine Glory in Apollonios’ Argonautica Judith Fletcher 7. The "Good" Poros and the "Bad" Poros: Infamy and Honour in Alexander Historiography Timothy Howe 8. Writing Monarchs of the Hellenistic Age: Renown, Fame, and Infamy Jacqueline Klooster 9. Creating Alexander: The "Official" History of Kallisthenes of Olynthos Waldemar Heckel References Contributors Index
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