Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage

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List of contents

Acknowledgments
Note on Translation
Introduction
Gladiatorial Imagery: The Rhetoric of Expenditure
Recent Studies of Horace and Literary Patronage
Autonomy and the Discursive Conventions of Patronage
Literary Amicitia

PART ONE: The Gift Economy of Patronage
Poetry and the Marketplace
The Embedded Economy of Rome
Gift and Delay in the Horatian Chronology

PART TWO: Tragic History, Lyric Expiation, and the Gift of Sacrifice
Pollio’s History and the Purification of Ritual Violence: Odes 2.1
Ritual Devotio and the Lyric Curse: Odes 2.13
The Roman Odes and Tragic Sacrifice
The Gift of Ideology

PART THREE: The Gifts of the Golden Age: Land, Debt, and Aesthetic Surplus
Land, Otium, Art: Eclogue 1
Gratia and the Poetics of Excess: Eclogue 4
The Man Protesteth Too Much: Satires 2.6
The Cornucopia and Hermeneutic Abundance: Odes 1.17

PART FOUR: From Patron to Friend: Epistolary Refashioning and the Economics of Refusal
Epistolary Subjectivity
Dyadic Disequilibrium and the Alternation of Debt: Epistles 1.1
The Duplicitous Speaker of Epistles 1.7
The Economics of Social Inscription

PART FIVE: The Epistolary Farm and the Status Implications of Epicurean Ataraxia
Pastoral and Privation
The Economy of Otium and the Material Conditions of the Aequus Animus: Epistles 1.14
The Tenuis Imago, or the Vulnerability of an Image: Epistles 1.16

Conclusion: The Gift and the Reading Community

References
Index

About the author

Phebe Lowell Bowditch is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Oregon.

Summary

This study explores odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in the light of modern anthropological and literary theory. The author examines, in particular, how the relationship between Horace and his patron Maecenas is reflected in these poems' themes and rhetorical figures.

Product details

• Authors: Phebe Lowell Bowditch, Bowditch Phebe Lowell
• Assisted by: Phebe Lowell Bowditch (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.03.2001
• EAN: 9780520226036
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22603-6
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Classics and Contemporary Thought; Classics and Contemporary Thou; Classics and Contemporary Thou; Classics and Contemporary Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Classic fiction (pre c 1945), LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), Poetry anthologies (various poets), Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval