Author: Bowditch, Phebe Lowell
Title: Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (2001). orig. cloth. xi,281 pp. 23x15cm. Series: Classics & Contemporary Thought, VII.. Minor rubbing. Some small staisn to binding. VG. ¶ Contents: The Gift Economy of Patronage; Tragic History, Lyric Expansion & the Gift of Sacrifice; The Gifts of the Gold Age: Land, Debt, & Aesthetic Surplus; From Patron to Friend: Epistolary Refashioning & the Economics of Refusal; The Epistolary Farm & the Status Implications of Epicurean Ataraxia; Conclusion: The Gift & the Reading Community.

Keywords: Classical Philology, Horace, Roman Empire, Latin Literature, Literary Criticism, Economic History, Economy Economics, Rome, Gifts Social