Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy in the Hellenistic World / / ed. by Riemer Faber.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Ager, Sheila L.,; Barbantani, Silvia,; De Callataÿ, François,; D’Agostini, Monica,; Faber, Riemer A.,; Fischer-Bovet, Christelle,; Fletcher, Judith,; Heckel, Waldemar,; Howe, Timothy,; Klooster, Jacqueline,
• HerausgeberIn: Faber, Riemer,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.) :; 41 b&w illustrations, 2 b&w tables

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....

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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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