"What is honor?" asked Falstaff and answered "a word."
An edition of The frenzy of renown
(1986)
The Frenzy of Renown
Fame and Its History
by Leo Braudy
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Analysizes the concept of fame throughout history. Includes chapters on Homer, Alexander the Great, Pompey, Cicero, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, caligula, Nero, Jesus Christ, St. Augustine, Charlesmagne, St. Francis of Assisi, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Benjamin Franklin, John Keats, William Hazlitt, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Abraham Lincoln, Mathew Brady, P.T. Barnum, et al.
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The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History
January 2001, Replica Books
Hardcover
in English
0735104131 9780735104136
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The frenzy of renown: fame & its history
1997, Vintage Books
in English
- 1st Vintage Books ed.
0679776303 9780679776307
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The frenzy of renown: fame & its history
1986, Oxford University Press
in English
0195040031 9780195040036
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The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History
1986, Oxford University Press
in English
0195051785 9780195051780
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