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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455822203321

Autore

Bowditch Phebe Lowell <1961->

Titolo

Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2001

ISBN

0-520-92589-0

1-59734-661-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature Horace and the gift economy of patronage

Disciplina

874.01

874/.01

Soggetti

Authors and patrons in literature

Horace-- Knowledge-- Economics

Rome - Social life and customs

Authors and patrons - Rome

Authors and patrons in literature - Rome

Patron and client - Rome

Literary patrons

Gifts in literature

Gifts (Roman law)

Languages & Literatures

Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTE ON TRANSLATION; Introduction; 1. The Gift Economy of Patronage; 2. Tragic History, Lyric Expiation, and the Gift of Sacrice; 3. The Gifts of the Golden Age: Land, Debt, and Aesthetic Surplus; 4. From Patron to Friend: Epistolary Refashioning and the Economics of Refusal; 5. The Epistolary Farm and the Status Implications of Epicurean Ataraxia; CONCLUSION: The Gift and the Reading Community; REFERENCES; SUBJECT INDEX; INDEX LOCORUM

Sommario/riassunto

This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and



literary theory. Phebe Lowell Bowditch looks in particular at how the relationship between Horace and his patron Maecenas is reflected in these poems' themes and rhetorical figures.