A Cultural History of Fame in Antiquity. vol. 1 / edited by Charles W Hedrick Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hedrick Jr., Charles W, editor.

Series:

The Cultural Histories Series.

The Cultural Histories Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Celebrities--Rome.

Celebrities.

Fame--Social aspects--Greece.

Fame.

Fame--Social aspects--Rome..

Prestige--History--To 1500.

Prestige.

Celebrities--Greece--History--To 146 B.C.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

A Cultural History of Fame in Antiquity covers the period from 1000 BCE to 600 CE. From the time of the Homeric poems to the end of antiquity, fame in Greco-Roman culture was strongly associated with civic virtue – a quality expressed exclusively in either warfare or politics. Excellence and achievement in other arenas – in art, poetry, philosophy, theatre, or sport – was always overshadowed by the prestige of soldiers and statesmen. This idealization of fame as an enduring and merited reward for real civic achievement was fundamentally aristocratic in both conception and purpose. As a legacy of antiquity, this notion of fame came to serve as a pure ideal, a foil to the emergence of a new kind of renown, ephemeral, unmerited, monetized: ‘celebrity’. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Fame explores the meaning of fame and celebrity from antiquity to today. The themes covered in each volume are the communication of fame; the arts, philosophy and attention; politics, leadership and power; religion, spirituality, immortality and renown; visibility of events, places and things; infamy and scandal; innovation, science and its public expression; and the construction and presentation of heroes Charles W. Hedrick Jr. is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. Volume 1 in the Cultural History of Fame set. General Editor: P. David Marshall, Charles Sturt University, Australia.

Contents:

List of Illustrations Series Preface Introduction, Charles W. Hedrick, Jr. 1. The Communication of Fame: Attention and the Market for Information, Charles W. Hedrick, Jr. 2. The Arts, Philosophy and Attention: Celebrity Authors in Ancient Rome, Luke Roman 3. Politics, Leadership and Power: Fame and Aristocratic Self-Fashioning in the Greco-Roman World, Andrew Gallia 4. Religion, Spirituality, Immortality and Renown: Religious Fame in the Greco-Roman World, Heidi Wendt 5. Visibility of Events, Places and Things, Ida Östenberg 6. Infamy and Scandal: The Roman Republic, Cristina Rosillo-López 7. Innovation, Science, and Its Public Expression, Håkan Tell 8. The Construction and Presentation of Heroes: Paradoxes of Honor and Fame, Ryan Balot and Daniel Schillinger Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

ISBN:

9781350072404

OCLC:

1543543267