Celebrity, fame, and infamy in the Hellenistic world /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
Description:	xii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Phoenix. Supplementary volume ; 58 Phoenix. Supplementary volume ; 58.
Subject:	Fame -- History. Hellenism. Civilization. Fame. Hellenism. Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C. Mediterranean Region -- Civilization. Greece. Mediterranean Region. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12357374

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Other authors / contributors:	Faber, Riemer A., editor.
ISBN:	1487505221 9781487505226
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Issued also in electronic format.
Summary:	"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 culture. This collection of essays illustrates the ways in which the characteristics of fame and infamy in the Hellenistic era distinguished themselves and how they were represented in diverse and unique ways throughout the Mediterranean. The means of recording fame and infamy included public art, literature, sculpture, coinage, and inscribed monuments. The authors examine the cultural means whereby fame and infamy entered social consciousness, and explore the nature and effect of this important and enduring sociological phenomenon."--

Table of 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

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