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Acknowledgments
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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
References
Contributors
Index