Outgoing book: “Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy in the Hellenistic World” edited by Riemer A. Faber

Hello everyone, thank you for being on Alessandro III di Macedonia – your resource on Alexander the Great! Here’s another outgoing book I’d like to share with you:

Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy in the Hellenistic World
Edited by Riemer A. Faber

Published by: University of Toronto Press

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 ruling elite carefully employed these means throughout the different Hellenistic kingdoms, and these essays demonstrate how they operated in the creation of social, political, and cultural values. 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.

Riemer A. Faber is a professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Waterloo.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
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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’ Argonautica
   Judith 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

List of References
List of Contributors

• Series: Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
• World Rights

• Page Count: 288 pages
• Illustrations: 41
• Dimensions: 6.0in x 0.0in x 9.0in

I’ll definitely check this release and I hope to find it soon on offer on some site because I’m very interested in reading it! Does it interest you too? Let me know, have a good day,