Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage

Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage

Phebe Lowell Bowditch

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Berkeley Los Angeles London

2001

Preferred Citation: Bowditch, Phebe Lowell. Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c2001 2001. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt0m3nc3rb/

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTE ON TRANSLATION

Introduction

1. The Gift Economy of Patronage

2. Tragic History, Lyric Expiation,  and the Gift of Sacrifice

3. The Gifts of the Golden Age

4. From Patron to Friend

5. The Epistolary Farm  and the Status Implications  of Epicurean Ataraxia

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

SUBJECT INDEX

INDEX LOCORUM

[Dedication]