Addicted to Fame: From the Ancient Greeks to Lady Gaga
Defamiliarizing fame by exploring its roots in the ancient world. Introduction “Fame is a bee,” Emily Dickinson wrote in one of her last poems. “It has a song— / It has a sting—.” “Ah, too,” she added, “it has a wing.” The poem captures Dickinson resigning herself to how ephemeral fame can be, how effortlessly[…]