Horace and the Gift Economy of PatronageUniversity of California Press, 2. 3. 2001 - 292 strán (strany) 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 views on literary patronage in this period. Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage provides a striking new understanding of Horace's poems and the Roman system of patronage, and also demonstrates the relevance of New Historicist and Marxist critical paradigms for Roman studies. In addition to incorporating anthropological and sociological perspectives, Bowditch's theoretical approach makes use of concepts drawn from linguistics, deconstruction, and the work of Michel Foucault. She weaves together these ideas in an original approach to Horace's use of golden age imagery, his language concerning public gifts or munera, his metaphors of sacrifice, and the rhetoric of class and status found in these poems. Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage represents an original approach to central issues and questions in the study of Latin literature, and sheds new light on our understanding of Roman society in general. |
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| 10 | |
| 15 | |
The Gift Economy of Patronage | 27 |
The Embedded Economy of Rome | 35 |
Gift and Delay in the Horatian Chronology | 53 |
Tragic History Lyric Expiation and the Gift of Sacrifice | 60 |
Odes 117 | 150 |
From Patron to Friend Epistolary Refashioning and the Economics of Refusal | 157 |
Epistolary Subjectivity | 160 |
Epistles 11 | 166 |
The Duplicitious Speaker of Epistles 17 | 177 |
The Economics of Social Inscription | 189 |
The Epistolary Farm and the Status Implications of Epicurean Ataraxia | 207 |
Pastoral and Privation | 208 |
Odes 21 | 68 |
Odes 213 | 80 |
The Roman Odes and Tragic Sacrifice | 91 |
The Gift of Ideology | 104 |
The Gifts of the Golden Age Land Debt and Aesthetic Surplus | 112 |
Eclogue | 118 |
Eclogue 4 | 125 |
Satires 26 | 138 |
Epistles 114 | 217 |
Epistles 116 | 235 |
The Gift and the Reading Community | 243 |
References | 251 |
Subject Index | 265 |
Index Locorum | 273 |
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Strana 225 - We assume that life produces the autobiography as an act produces its consequences, but can we not suggest, with equal justice, that the autobiographical project may itself produce and determine the life and that whatever the writer does is in fact governed by the technical demands of self-portraiture and thus determined, in all its aspects, by the resources of his medium?
Strana 167 - We may suggest that from this perspective, ideology is not something which informs or invests symbolic production; rather the aesthetic act is itself ideological, and the production of aesthetic or narrative form is to be seen as an ideological act in its own right, with the function of inventing imaginary or formal "solutions" to unresolvable social contradictions.
Strana 32 - ... prave factis decorari versibus opto, ne rubeam pingui donatus munere, et una cum scriptore meo, capsa porrectus operta, deferar in vicum vendentem tus et odores et piper et quidquid chartis amicitur ineptis.
Strana 32 - Discit enim citius meminitque libentius illud, Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.
Strana 95 - ODI profanum vulgus et arceo : Favete linguis : carmina non prius Audita Musarum sacerdos Virginibus puerisque canto.
Strana 45 - The only way to escape from the ethnocentric naiveties of economism, without falling into populist exaltation of the generous naivety of earlier forms of society, is to carry out in full what economism does only partially, and to extend economic calculation to all the goods, material and symbolic, without distinction, that present themselves as rare and worthy of being sought after in a particular social formation — which may be 'fair words...
Strana 131 - Sicelides Musae, paulo maiora canamus! non omnis arbusta iuvant humilesque myricae: si canimus silvas, silvae sint consule dignae.
Strana 103 - Aethiops, hie classe formidatus, ille missilibus melior sagittis. fecunda culpae saecula nuptias primum inquinavere et genus et domos; hoc fonte derivata clades in patriam populumque fluxit.