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	Chronicles of Love and Resentment LXXXII
		For Herostratus knew that his life would be the subject of no biographies, that he would be remembered for one act and one act alone.
		Herostratus is not protesting distributional injustice but the inherent disequilibrium of the human condition that provides us with an infinity in signs and a finitude of things; as Lamartine put it, man is Borné dans son destin, infini dans ses voeux [limited in destiny, infinite in desire].
		Herostratus' act does not express the infinite ennui of the aristocrat whose awareness of mortality corrupts his worldly pleasures.
	www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu /views/view87.htm (1626 words)

	Herostratus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Herostratus was a young man who set fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus (currently in the territory of Turkey) in his quest for fame on July 21, 356 BC.
		The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus was built of marble, and was considered the most beautiful of some thirty shrines built by the Greeks to honor Artemis; the temple was one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
		In order to dissuade similar-minded fame-seekers, the authorities, as well as executing Herostratus, condemned him to a legacy of obscurity by forbidding mention of his name under the penalty of death.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Herostratus (249 words)

	Herostratus (1967) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Herostratus screened at the Orson Welles theatre in Cambridge (Mass.) for two weeks in (I think) 1968.
		The mystery is compounded by the great gulf of years that separates me from that screening, by the fact that almost nobody I meet has seen it or even heard of it, and by the apparent lack of any body of explication and commentary.
		Without seeing it again I wouldn't attempt a precis of the plot, but what remains in memory is the cool classicism of the narrative(innocence vs. worldliness and levels of manipulativeness that Henry James might have appreciated) as mediated through an unobtrusive but arresting surrealism of technique.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0061761 (306 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 439 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Herostratus, when safely landed, gave an entertainment to his friends, to celebrate his deliverance, and presented each of his guests with a myrtle crown: hence such a chaplet was called (TTsQavos NavKparirys.
		The stroke of genius in question, however, is ascribed by Cicero, whose taste it does not seem to have shocked, to Timaeus of Tauromenium.
		Herostratus was put to the torture for his deed, and confessed that he had fired the temple to immortalise himself.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1547.html (947 words)

	Review: `Forget Herostratus'
		Herostratus becomes such a big celebrity that he is able to seduce Clementina (Chandler Vinton), the wife of emperor Tissafernes (Dan Diggles), and then tries to save his life and gain political power by virtue of her marital indiscretion.
		Of course there are oodles of similarities between Herostratus and a host of contemporary crooked political power-grabbers, media-inspired villains (from Timothy McVeigh to the mystery sniper in Washington, D.C.), and the corporate executives swept up in scandals all over the nation.
		On the surface, Herostratus seems like a character it would be easy to hate, but he remains complicated and likable because many of his excesses feel like our own.
	www.princetoninfo.com /200210/21016p02.html (765 words)

	23 Apples of Eris - Discordian Chaos
		Judging by the fact that all the horses were different shades of brown, Herostratus Caroll Coates guessed that they must have been the ‘Murderous Mud’ gang and the lead biker none other than Sugar-Lump himself.
		As the five horses passed him he was overwhelmed by the smell of mud and sweat, the noise of the motorbikes, the constant whinnying and the feel as many small pieces of gravel pattered onto his cheeks.
		Herostratus Caroll Coates walked over to the bikes and saw they each had different names, one was called ‘Frog Flattener’, another ‘Infernobike’ and another one was called ‘Brum’.
	www.23ae.com /index.asp?post=69 (1129 words)

	Covering Crime and Justice -- The Crime Beat: An Obscure Criminal
		A young man named Herostratus set fire to the majestic Temple of Diana in Ephesus, in what is now Turkey, on July 21, 356 BC.
		The heat and tumbling tile and timbers brought down vast sections of the temple, and the perfect white marble was flened with char.
		The name Herostratus has endured in classical literature and has been adapted in the vocabulary of many languages.
	www.justicejournalism.org /crimeguide/chapter01/sidebars/chap01_xside6.html (486 words)

	The UnMuseum - The Temple of Artemis
		The new temple was the pride of Ephesus until 356 B.C. when a tragedy, by name of Herostratus, struck.
		Herostratus was a young Ephesian who would stop at no cost to have his name go down in history.
		The citizens of Ephesus were so appalled at this act they issued a decree that anyone who spoke of Herostratus would be put to death.
	unmuseum.mus.pa.us /ephesus.htm (1510 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: The Moviegoer Herostratus at the Orson Welles, starting tomorrow
		This recognizable story is presented in long sequences, usually one take, in which the actors were allowed a maximum of freedom to improvise their own dialogue: aside from what may be some over-acting by Michael Gothard as Max, the result comes off as well as any improvised acting I've ever seen.
		But the distinction between acting and being in Herostratus is hazy, complicated by Levy's choice of actors whose personalities he felt were in harmony with those of the characters they were to portray.
		What is most exhilirating about the whole experience is the raw intellectual energy, the pulse beat of an unflagging imagination, the sense that an important artist has places to go and visions to show us if only the industry will let him.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=352252 (1005 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Herostratus contains both the personal failure of an individual, and the social failure that cre- ated that individual, and is thus a film of importance for those patient enougk to hear it out.
		Unfortunately, the potential im- pact upon most people will probably be diluted, perhaps e- ven lost, because of the excessive self-indulgence; both technically and thematically.
		Herostratus, by Don Levy (at the Orson Wells Feb. 25-- Mar.
	www-tech.mit.edu /archives/VOL_090/TECH_V090_S0046_P003.txt (2110 words)

	The Seven Wonders of the World, The Temple or Artemis
		The new temple was the pride of Ephesus until 356 B.C. when a tragedy, by name of Herostratus, struck.
		Herostratus was a young Ephesian who would stop at no cost to have his name go down in history.
		The citizens of Ephesus were so appalled at this act they issued a decree that anyone who spoke of Herostratus would be put to death.
	www.cleveleys.co.uk /wonders/templeofartemis.htm (1316 words)

	Travel rewards, Travel Guard, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus Turkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Temple of Artemis was destroyed again in 336 BC, this time by an arsonist named Herostratus who wanted to immortalize his name (2300 years later it appears he succeeded).
		Another legend tells us that Alexander the Great was born on July 21, 336 BC, the same day the earlier mentioned arsonist Herostratus burned down the Temple of Artemis.
		The goddess Artemis did nothing to stop the temple from burning because she was too busy attending to Alexander's birth.
	www.clickiran.com /seven-wonders/Temple_of_Artemis.htm (548 words)

	pw: philadelphia weekly online
		Far more passionate than the typical English-speaking satire, Grigory Gorin's Forget Herostratus concerns an everyman whose hunger for notoriety leads to his torching one of the ancient world's Seven Wonders, the temple of Artemis.
		Gorin's dialogue is wooden and overwrought, but Khandikian's staging is wonderfully inventive, utilizing powerful spatial relationships, stylized movement, masks and most notably sound to create a strange place Americans are now intimately familiar with: where a terrorist attack is co-opted by politicians, revolutionaries and businessmen to fit their own agenda.
		The most disturbing aspect of Forget Herostratus, though, is the connection it makes between fame and violence, and Edward Keith Baker's oddly compelling performance gives us a glimpse at how we're drawn to celebrity.
	www.philadelphiaweekly.com /view.php?id=4518 (343 words)

	JamesBowman.net \| From Heroes to Herostratus
		But the last presentation to Calliope in Chaucer’s poem is the case of Herostratus, the man who was said in the chronicles of Valerius Maximus and John of Salisbury to have burnt the temple of Diana at Ephesus only to become famous.
		When he asks that his fame be trumpeted to the four winds, the muse answers: “Gladly!” Chaucer may or may not have been able to see it coming away far off in the distance, but it ought to be clear to us at least that we live in a Herostratian age.
		I know and apologize for the fact that this is old, rather tiresome news, but I thought it might be instructive to see the connection, tenuous though it is, between our celebrity culture and the honor culture which preceded it.
	www.jamesbowman.net /articleDetail.asp?pubID=456 (3577 words)

	Noord Nederlandsche Boekhandel, Friese en Nederlandse Boekhandel, meer dan 200,000 titels online.
		Pessoa's boeiende correspondentie toont dat hij, auteur van een aantal van de mooiste Portugese zinnen ooit, een dromer was die de wereld in wilde, maar daarvan werd weerhouden door zijn zelfgeschapen masker.
		Herostratus is de geschiedenis ingegaan als de figuur die de tempel van Diana in brand stak met de bedoeling om zijn naam onsterfelijk te maken.
		Dat lukte hem doordat het stadsbestuur verbood, op straffe des doods, zijn naam uit te spreken, waardoor de mensen er juist de mond van vol hadden.
	www.nnbh.com /basis.php/Fernando/Pessoa (1088 words)

	Democratic Underground Forums - New name for W: Herostratus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But one man, Herostratus, decided to make his name immortal, and he burned it down.
		The deed was so horrible that his name was stricken from all public records, so that his wish would not be granted.
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	www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID60/31542.html (329 words)

	Hero Stratus :: Home Page
		Check out Herostratus at the Croation Cultural Center on June 16th as they compete in the finals for Band on the Run.
		Herostratus along with various other artists will be opening a show for Armchair Cynics at the Croatian Cultural Center.
		Herostratus will be playing at the Lion's Club in Chilliwack this Friday, March 9th!
	www.herostratus.com (304 words)

	WIKIPEDIA, STAY AWAY FROM THIS SUBJECTIVE/PATHETIC WEB-SITE, HERE'S WHY...
		THIS VANDAL, TOGETHER WITH PEOPLE LIKE HEROSTRATUS AND OWNER JIMMY WALES SHOULD NEVER BE ALLOWED TO KEEP THIS SITE, THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE CREATED THIS CRAP.
		HEROSTRATUS AND CURPS MADE US "VANDALS" OUT OF THE BLUE, OF COURSE, THEY BACKED IT UP WITH "EVIDENCE" IF SOMEBODY
		IS INTERESTED WHO HEROSTRATUS IS, WE HAVE HIS EMAIL AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, JUST EMAIL US AT THIS YAHOO EMAIL.
	www.geocities.com /georgereevesproject/wikipediatruth.html (728 words)

	De tempel van Artemis.htm
		Ik vond het een waar genoegen om jullie hier rond te leiden.
		Herostratus, toen een heersend man dacht door het verbranden van de de tempel onsterfelijk te worden.
		Ook wilde hij dat niemand hem vergat en zijn naam in de boeken zou komen.
	www.iselinge.nl /scholenplein/pabolessen/01022awereld/dezevenwereldwonderen/detempel.htm (661 words)

	Forget Herostratus! tickets - Forget Herostratus! information - Boston Metro
		On July 21, 356 BCE a young man named Herostratus, in order to secure his immortal fame, burned down the great temple of Artemis at Ephesus.
		He hungered for fame and believed that only an act of such destructive proportions would ensure that his name would never be forgotten.
		The play follows the machinations of Herostratus as he sells his memoirs, wins over the appreciation of the mob, and even seduces the Lady of Ephesus.
	www.theatermania.com /content/show.cfm/show/111450 (286 words)

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