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Autore |
Coffee Neil |
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Titolo |
Gift and gain : how money transformed Ancient Rome / / Neil Coffee |
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New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-065594-1 |
0-19-049645-2 |
0-19-049644-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiv, 296 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
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Collana |
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Classical Culture and Society |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Money - Rome - History |
Rome Economic conditions 30 B.C.-476 A.D |
Rome Civilization |
Rome History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2017. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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I. Orientation. Locating the fault line : concepts and scope -- II. Early Rome : foundation. Looking forward from archaic Rome -- III. The middle republic : adaptation. Adapting the law in the age of Cato -- Ideological flexibility : Cato and Ennius -- Life before liberality : Plautus and Terence -- The Gracchi and the failure of collective generosity -- IV. The late republic : exploitation. Crooked generosity in the late republic -- Cicero between justice and expediency -- Sallust and the decline of reciprocity -- Caesar's wicked gifts -- Atticus : banker, benefactor, paragon -- V. The early empire : separation. Prying worlds apart : the Augustan response -- Seneca's philosophical cure -- VI. Conclusions. Halfway to modernity. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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'Gift and Gain' shows how, over the course of Rome's classical era, a vibrant commercial culture progressively displaced traditional systems of gift giving that had long been central to Rome's material, social, and political economy, with effects on areas of life from marriage to politics. |
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