Personal Patronage Under the Early Empire

by Richard P. Saller

Personal patronage was an accepted element in the functioning of Roman society. It is usually considered to be a particularly Republican phenomenon, which declined as other mechanisms developed with the growth of the imperial bureaucracy. Dr Saller's book, the first major study of patronage in the early Empire, shows that the patron-client relationship continued on much the same basis into the third century AD. Drawing on literary and epigraphic sources,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521893925
• ISBN13: 9780521893923
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.7"