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

• Autore: Bowditch Phebe Lowell <1961->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 874.01; 874/.01
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage
• ISBN: 0-520-92589-0; 1-59734-661-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455822203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II