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Paperback Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage Book

ISBN: 0520226038

ISBN13: 9780520226036

Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage

(Part of the Classics and Contemporary Thought Series)

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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...

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