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Author Bowditch, Phebe Lowell, 1961-

Title Horace and the gift economy of patronage / Phebe Lowell Bowditch.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001]
©2001
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 281 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
Classics and contemporary thought ; 7
Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
Classics and contemporary thought ; 7.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-268) and indexes.
Contents The Gift Economy of Patronage -- Tragic History, Lyric Expiation, and the Gift of Sacrifice -- The Gifts of the Golden Age -- From Patron to Friend -- The Epistolary Farm and the Status Implications of Epicurean Ataraxia.
Summary 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.
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Subject Horace -- Knowledge and learning -- Economics.
Horace.
Economics.
Horace -- Knowledge. Economics.
Authors and patrons -- Rome.
Authors and patrons in literature.
Authors and patrons in literature.
Rome -- Social life and customs.
Rome (Empire)
Manners and customs.
Rome -- Economic conditions.
Economic conditions.
Patron and client -- Rome.
Literary patrons -- Rome.
Gifts in literature.
Gifts in literature.
Gifts (Roman law)
Gifts (Roman law)
Indexed Term Litteratur Klassiske litteraturer.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Bowditch, Phebe Lowell, 1961- Horace and the gift economy of patronage. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001 0520226011 0520226038 (DLC) 00024673 (OCoLC)43434580
ISBN 9780520925892 (electronic book)
0520925890 (electronic book)
141752393X (electronic book)
9781417523931 (electronic book)
1597346616 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader)
9781597346610 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader)
0520226011 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780520226012 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0520226038 (paperback)
9780520226036 (paperback)

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