Fame: What the Classics Tell Us About Our Cult of Celebrity by Tom Payne

Fame: What the Classics Tell Us About Our Cult of Celebrity

Tom Payne

288 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative slow-paced
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We may regard celebrities as deities, but that does not mean we worship them with deference. From prehistory to the present, humanity has possessed a primal urge first to exalt the famous but then to cut them down (Michael Jackson, anyone?). Why d...

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