Celebrity, fame, and infamy in the Hellenistic world /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Faber, Riemer A. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
Series:Phoenix. Supplementary volume ; 58.
Subjects:
To 146 B.C.
Fame > History.
Hellenism.
Renommée > Histoire.
Hellénisme.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
Civilization
Fame
Hellenism
Greece > Civilization > To 146 B.C.
Mediterranean Region > Civilization.
Grèce > Civilisation > Jusqu'à 146 av. J.-C.
Méditerranée, Région de la > Civilisation.
Greece
Mediterranean Region
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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