The commerce of war: exchange and social order in Latin epic
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Beteilige Person: Coffee, Neil (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Chicago University of Chicago Press ©2009
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-289) and indexes
Reciprocity in crisis : Vergil's Aeneid -- The triumph of venality : Lucan's Civil war -- Conspicuous consumption : Statius's Thebaid
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 The Commerce of War, Neil Coffee argues that these exchanges play a central yet overlooked role in epic depictions of Roman society. Tracing the collapse of an aristocratic worldview across all three poems, Coffee highlights the distinction they draw between reciprocal gift giving among elites and the more problematic behaviors of buying and selling. In the Aeneid, customary gift and favor exchanges
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 326 pages)
ISBN:0226111903
9780226111902