Who Ever Heard of Cinncanatus?

Have you ever heard of the Roman citizen Cincinnatus?

Probably not, he was an ordinary Roman citizen who lived in the forth century B.C.E, and is regarded as the model of virtue and honor. Cincinnatus' first term as dictator began when the Aequi tribe from the east and the Volscians from the southeast began to menace Rome. The Roman Senate pleaded with Cincinnatus to assume the mantle of dictator to save the city.
According to Roman annalists, Cincinnatus had settled into a life of farming and knew that his departure might mean starvation for his family if the crops went unsown in his absence. He assented to the request anyway and within sixteen days had defeated the Aequi and the Volscians. His immediate resignation of his absolute authority with the end of the crisis has often been cited as an example of good leadership, service to the public good, civic virtue, and the virtue of modesty.

My point is that while most people have never heard of Cincinnatus, everybody has heard of Hitler, Stalin, and Nero. How fair is that. If the goal of humans is to achieve some type of immortality, than those who behave in an evil or immoral fashion (Hitler, Stalin, Nero) have achieved a type of immortality (if an infamous type) while those who live their lives in an honorable and modest fashion (of whom Cincinnatus was the most well known) are forgotten in the fog of the past.

The only justification I can offer is that perhaps those who live righteously and do good deeds live on through those good deeds and achieve a different type of immortality.