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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.
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Introduction: Distinctives of Hellenistic Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy
Riemer A. Faber
1.
Fama and Infamia: The Tale of Grypos and Tryphaina
Sheila L. Ager
2. Models of Virtue, Models of Poetry: The Quest for "Everlasting Fame" in Hellenistic Military Epitaphs
Silvia Barbantani
3. Can Powerful Women be Popular? Amastris: Shaping a Persian Wife into a Famous Hellenistic Queen
Monica D’Agostini
4. Remelted or Overstruck: Cases of Monetary
Damnatio Memoriae in Hellenistic Times
François de Callataÿ
5. Ptolemaic Officials and Officers in Search of Fame
Christelle Fischer-Bovet
6. Lemnian Infamy and Masculine Glory in Apollonios’
ArgonauticaJudith Fletcher
7. The "Good" Poros and the "Bad" Poros: Infamy and Honour in Alexander Historiography
Timothy Howe
8. Writing Monarchs of the Hellenistic Age: Renown, Fame, and Infamy
Jacqueline Klooster
9. Creating Alexander: The "Official" History of Kallisthenes of Olynthos
Waldemar Heckel
References
Contributors
Index
About the author
Riemer A. Faber is a professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Waterloo.
Summary
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.
