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 | Fame: What the Classics Tell Us About Our Cult of Celebrity (1st Edition) by Tom Payne Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2010 ISBN-10: 0-312-42993-2 / 0312429932 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42993-5 / 9780312429935 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 do we treat the ones we love like burnt offerings in | |