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Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy in the Hellenistic World / / Riemer Faber
| Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy in the Hellenistic World / / Riemer Faber |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2020] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 pages) |
| Disciplina | 306.4 |
| Collana | Phoenix Supplementary Volumes |
| Soggetto topico | Hellenism |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
History
Electronic books. |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Alexander the Great
Cleopatra Hellenistic celebrity classics coinage fame famous historiography history of celebrity infamy numismatics propaganda renown sculpture social poetics women rulers |
| ISBN |
1-4875-3179-6
1-4875-3178-8 |
| Classificazione | NH 6400 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Distinctives of Hellenistic Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy / Riemer A. Faber -- Fama and Infamia: The Tale of Grypos and Tryphaina / Sheila L. Ager -- Models of Virtue, Models of Poetry: The Quest for "Everlasting Fame" in Hellenistic Military Epitaphs / Silvia Barbantani -- Can Powerful Women Be Popular? Amastris: Shaping a Persian Wife into a Famous Hellenistic Queen / Monica D'Agostini -- Remelted or Overstruck: Cases of Monetary Damnatio Memoriae in Hellenistic Times? / François de Callataÿ -- Ptolemaic Officials and Officers in Search of Fame / Christelle Fischer-Bovet -- Lemnian Infamy and Masculine Glory in Apollonios' Argonautica / Judith Fletcher -- The "Good" Poros and the "Bad" Poros: Infamy and Honour in Alexander Historiography / Timothy Howe -- Writing Monarchs of the Hellenistic Age: Renown, Fame, and Infamy / Jacqueline Klooster -- Creating Alexander: The "Official" History of Kallisthenes of Olynthos / Waldemar Heckel. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794171403321 |
| Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2020] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Novel Cleopatras : Romance Historiography and the Dido Tradition in English Fiction, 1688-1785 / / Nicole Horejsi
| Novel Cleopatras : Romance Historiography and the Dido Tradition in English Fiction, 1688-1785 / / Nicole Horejsi |
| Autore | Horejsi Nicole |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (291 pages) |
| Disciplina | 823.509 |
| Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism
English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books. |
| Soggetto non controllato |
British literature
Cleopatra Dido English fiction Greek mythology conflation eighteenth-century literature eighteenth-century novel f myth and history historiography history of women’s writing literature romance women novelists women writers |
| ISBN |
1-4426-6740-0
1-4426-6739-7 |
| Classificazione |
cci1icc
coll13 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1: Demythologizing Dido: Epic and Romance; 1 "Pulcherrima Dido": Jane Barker and the Epic of Exile; 2 "What Is There of a Woman Worth Relating?" Revising the Aeneid in Henry Fielding's Amelia; Part 2: Mythologizing Cleopatra: Romance Historiography and the Queens of Egypt; 3 "A Pattern to Ensuing Ages": Reinventing Historical Practice in Charlotte Lennox's Female Quixote; 4 Performing Augustan History in Sarah Fielding's Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia
5 Whose "Wild and Extravagant Stories"? Clara Reeve's The Progress of Romance and The History of Charoba, Queen of AEgyptEpilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911009372903321 |
Horejsi Nicole
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| Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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