Celebrity, fame, and infamy in the Hellenistic world / edited by Riemer A. Faber.

"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 cu...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Other Authors: Faber, Riemer A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
Series:Phoenix. Supplementary volume ; 58.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Distinctives of Hellenistic Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy / Riemer A. Faber
  • Fama and Infamia: The Tale of Grypos and Tryphaina / Sheila L. Ager
  • Models of Virtue, Models of Poetry: The Quest for "Everlasting Fame" in Hellenistic Military Epitaphs / Silvia Barbantani
  • Can Powerful Women Be Popular? Amastris: Shaping a Persian Wife into a Famous Hellenistic Queen / Monica D'Agostini
  • Remelted or Overstruck: Cases of Monetary Damnatio Memoriae in Hellenistic Times? / François de Callataÿ
  • Ptolemaic Officials and Officers in Search of Fame / Christelle Fischer-Bovet
  • Lemnian Infamy and Masculine Glory in Apollonios' Argonautica / Judith Fletcher
  • The "Good" Poros and the "Bad" Poros: Infamy and Honour in Alexander Historiography / Timothy Howe
  • Writing Monarchs of the Hellenistic Age: Renown, Fame, and Infamy / Jacqueline Klooster
  • Creating Alexander: The "Official" History of Kallisthenes of Olynthos / Waldemar Heckel.