Terrorism for Self-Glorification: The Herostratos Syndrome
- Author / Editor
- Borowitz, Albert.
Terrorism for Self-Glorification: The Herostratos Syndrome
- Published
- Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2005.
- Physical Description
- xvii, 190 pp.
- Description
- Traces the development of the traditional story of Herostratos, the arsonist of Diana's temple in Ephesus, and comments (pp. 23-24) that, in light of its inconsistencies with the traditional account, Chaucer's reference (HF 1844) to one who set fire to the temple of Isis in Athens may be seen to derive from "exemplary oral tradition" rather than weak memory of a literary source.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations