Acknowledgments ix
Author's Note x
Introduction xi
The Birth of the Herostratos Tradition
1(19)
The Globalization of Herostratos
20(16)
The Destroyers
36(35)
The Killers
71(40)
Herostratos at the World Trade Center
111(12)
The Literature of Herostratos Since the Early Nineteenth Century
123(36)
Afterword 159(1)
Appendix: Herostratos in Art and Film 160(2)
Notes 162(22)
Index 184