9. Creating Alexander: The “Official” History of Kallisthenes of Olynthos

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Abbreviations xi
6. Introduction: Distinctives of Hellenistic Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy 1
7. 1. Fama and Infamia: The Tale of Grypos and Tryphaina 18
8. 2. Models of Virtue, Models of Poetry: The Quest for “Everlasting Fame” in Hellenistic Military Epitaphs 37
9. 3. Can Powerful Women Be Popular? Amastris: Shaping a Persian Wife into a Famous Hellenistic Queen 70
10. 4. Remelted or Overstruck: Cases of Monetary Damnatio Memoriae in Hellenistic Times? 90
11. 5. Ptolemaic Officials and Officers in Search of Fame 111
12. 6. Lemnian Infamy and Masculine Glory in Apollonios’ Argonautica 135
13. 7. The “Good” Poros and the “Bad” Poros: Infamy and Honour in Alexander Historiography 156
14. 8. Writing Monarchs of the Hellenistic Age: Renown, Fame, and Infamy 172
15. 9. Creating Alexander: The “Official” History of Kallisthenes of Olynthos 199
16. References 217
17. Contributors 245
18. Index 249
19. PHOENIX SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUMES 261