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Hardcover Paul and the Ancient Celebrity Circuit: The Cross and Moral Transformation Book

ISBN: 3161546156

ISBN13: 9783161546150

Paul and the Ancient Celebrity Circuit: The Cross and Moral Transformation

The modern cult of celebrity, commencing with Garibaldi, Byron and Whitman, is compared to the quest for glory in late republican and early imperial Roman society. Studies based on the documentary and literary sources - including the "great man," the elite quest for civic honour, the Mediterranean athletic ideal, the ethical curriculum of the gymnasium, and local association values - provide the basis for James R. Harrison to assess the ancient preoccupation...

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