Format:
1 online resource (276 pages)
ISBN:
9781487531782
Series Statement:
Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
Content:
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.
Content:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Distinctives of Hellenistic Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy -- 1 Fama and Infamia: The Tale of Grypos and Tryphaina -- 2 Models of Virtue, Models of Poetry: The Quest for "Everlasting Fame" in Hellenistic Military Epitaphs -- 3 Can Powerful Women Be Popular? Amastris: Shaping a Persian Wife into a Famous Hellenistic Queen -- 4 Remelted or Overstruck: Cases of Monetary Damnatio Memoriae in Hellenistic Times? -- 5 Ptolemaic Officials and Officers in Search of Fame -- 6 Lemnian Infamy and Masculine Glory in Apollonios' Argonautica -- 7 The "Good" Poros and the "Bad" Poros: Infamy and Honour in Alexander Historiography -- 8 Writing Monarchs of the Hellenistic Age: Renown, Fame, and Infamy -- 9 Creating Alexander: The "Official" History of Kallisthenes of Olynthos -- References -- Contributors -- Index.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781487505226
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781487505226
Language:
English
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