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Celebrity in Antiquity : From Media Tarts to the Tabloid Queens

by: Garland, R.

Price: 35,00 EURO

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Category: Reception of Antiquity
Code: 7711
ISBN-13: 9780715634486 / 978-0-7156-3448-6
ISBN-10: 0715634488 / 0-7156-3448-8
Publisher: Duckworth
Publication Date: 2006
Publication Place: London
Binding: Paper
Pages: 177
Book Condition: New

Celebrity in antiquity : from media tarts to tabloid queens

Author: Robert Garland

Summary: Robert Garland turns the spotlight on the careers of some of the most successful and colourful self-promoters ever to have lived, including Alcibiades, Socrates, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Augustus, Jesus, Nero and Theodosia, and investigates the secrets of their success. He also looks at ways in which other highly talented individuals turned themselves into celebrities, including sports personalities, entertainers, philosophers, founders of new religions, and internationally renowned prostitutes.

Series:
Classical inter/faces

 

ix, 177 pages ; 24 cm.


Contents:
The media tart
The royal icon
The consummate populist
The imperial superstar
The sports star
The celebrity guru
The religious charismatic
The showbiz star
The sexually liberated female
The tabloid queen
Conclusions
Principal sources
Time-line
Coinage

 
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Celebrity in Antiquity : From Media Tarts to the Tabloid Queens

by: Garland, R.

  • ISBN-13: 9780715634486 / 978-0-7156-3448-6
  • ISBN-03: 0715634488 / 0-7156-3448-8
  • Duckworth, London, 2006

Price: 35,00 EURO

1 copy in stock