Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage

by Phebe Lowell Bowditch

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520226038
• ISBN13: 9780520226036
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"