The Commerce of War: Exchange and Social Order in Latin Epic

by Neil Coffee

Latin epics such as Virgil?s Aeneid , Lucan?s Civil War , and Statius?s Thebaid addressed Roman aristocrats whose dealings in gifts, favors, and payments defined their conceptions of social order. In... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226111873
• ISBN13: 9780226111872
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"