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Classics and Contemporary Thought Ser.: Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage by Phebe Lowell Bowditch (2001, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520226011
ISBN-139780520226012
eBay Product ID (ePID)1885209

Product Key Features

Number of Pages292 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameHorace and the Gift Economy of Patronage
SubjectPolitical Process / General, Publishing, Ancient / Rome, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Ancient & Classical
Publication Year2001
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Political Science, Poetry, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
AuthorPhebe Lowell Bowditch
SeriesClassics and Contemporary Thought Ser.
FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight16.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN00-024673
Dewey Edition21
Series Volume Number7
Dewey Decimal874/.01
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Note on Translation Introduction Gladiatorial Imagery: The Rhetoric of Expenditure Recent Studies of Horace and Literary Patronage Autonomy and the Discursive Conventions of Patronage Literary Amicitia PART ONE: The Gift Economy of Patronage Poetry and the Marketplace The Embedded Economy of Rome Gift and Delay in the Horatian Chronology PART TWO: Tragic History, Lyric Expiation, and the Gift of Sacrifice Pollio's History and the Purification of Ritual Violence: Odes 2.1 Ritual Devotio and the Lyric Curse: Odes 2.13 The Roman Odes and Tragic Sacrifice The Gift of Ideology PART THREE: The Gifts of the Golden Age: Land, Debt, and Aesthetic Surplus Land, Otium, Art: Eclogue 1 Gratia and the Poetics of Excess: Eclogue 4 The Man Protesteth Too Much: Satires 2.6 The Cornucopia and Hermeneutic Abundance: Odes 1.17 PART FOUR: From Patron to Friend: Epistolary Refashioning and the Economics of Refusal Epistolary Subjectivity Dyadic Disequilibrium and the Alternation of Debt: Epistles 1.1 The Duplicitous Speaker of Epistles 1.7 The Economics of Social Inscription PART FIVE: The Epistolary Farm and the Status Implications of Epicurean Ataraxia Pastoral and Privation The Economy of Otium and the Material Conditions of the Aequus Animus: Epistles 1.14 The Tenuis Imago, or the Vulnerability of an Image: Epistles 1.16 Conclusion: The Gift and the Reading Community References Index
SynopsisThis 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 Patronageprovides 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 ormunera,his metaphors of sacrifice, and the rhetoric of class and status found in these poems. Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronagerepresents 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberPA6411 .B66 2001
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