Horace and the Gift Economy of PatronageUniversity of California Press, 02/03/2001 - 292 من الصفحات 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. Using anthropological studies on gift exchange, she uncovers an implicit economic dynamic in these poems and skillfully challenges standard views on literary patronage in this period. Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage provides a striking new understanding of Horace's poems and the Roman system of patronage, and also demonstrates the relevance of New Historicist and Marxist critical paradigms for Roman studies. In addition to incorporating anthropological and sociological perspectives, Bowditch's theoretical approach makes use of concepts drawn from linguistics, deconstruction, and the work of Michel Foucault. She weaves together these ideas in an original approach to Horace's use of golden age imagery, his language concerning public gifts or munera, his metaphors of sacrifice, and the rhetoric of class and status found in these poems. Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage represents an original approach to central issues and questions in the study of Latin literature, and sheds new light on our understanding of Roman society in general. |
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Literary Amicitia | 15 |
The Gift Economy of Patronage | 27 |
The Embedded Economy of Rome | 35 |
Gift and Delay in the Horatian Chronology | 53 |
Tragic History Lyric Expiation and the Gift of Sacrifice | 60 |
Odes 117 | 150 |
From Patron to Friend Epistolary Refashioning and the Economics of Refusal | 157 |
Epistolary Subjectivity | 160 |
Epistles 11 | 166 |
The Duplicitious Speaker of Epistles 17 | 177 |
The Economics of Social Inscription | 189 |
The Epistolary Farm and the Status Implications of Epicurean Ataraxia | 207 |
Pastoral and Privation | 208 |
Odes 21 | 68 |
Odes 213 | 80 |
The Roman Odes and Tragic Sacrifice | 91 |
The Gift of Ideology | 104 |
The Gifts of the Golden Age Land Debt and Aesthetic Surplus | 112 |
Eclogue | 118 |
Eclogue 4 | 125 |
Satires 26 | 138 |
Epistles 114 | 217 |
Epistles 116 | 235 |
The Gift and the Reading Community | 243 |
References | 251 |
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