Gift and Gain: How Money Transformed Ancient Rome shows how, over the course of Rome's classical era, a vibrant commercial culture progressively displaced traditional systems of gift giving that had long been central to Rome's material, social, and political economy, with effects on areas of life from marriage to politics.
Gift and Gain: How Money Transformed Ancient Rome shows how, over the course of Rome's classical era, a vibrant commercial culture progressively displaced traditional systems of gift giving that had long been central to Rome's material, social, and political economy, with effects on areas of life from marriage to politics.
Neil Coffee is Associate Professor of Classics at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His interests include Latin poetry, Roman history, and digital humanities.
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Table of Contents List of Figures Introduction Chapter 1: Locating the Fault Line: Concepts and Scope Part 1: The Middle Republic: Adaptation Chapter 2: Looking Forward from Archaic Rome Chapter 3: Adapting the Law in the Age of Cato Chapter 4: Ideological Flexibility: Cato and Ennius Chapter 5: Life Before Liberality: Plautus and Terence Chapter 6: The Gracchi and the Failure of Collective Generosity Part 2: The Late Republic: Exploitation Chapter 7: Crooked Generosity in the Late Republic Chapter 8: Cicero between Justice and Expediency Chapter 9: Sallust and the Decline of Reciprocity Chapter 10: Caesar's Wicked Gifts Chapter 11: Atticus: Banker, Benefactor, Paragon Part 3: The Early Empire: Separation Chapter 12: Prying Worlds Apart: The Augustan Response Chapter 13: Seneca's Philosophical Cure Part 4: Conclusions Chapter 14: Halfway to Modernity Appendix Bibliography Index Locorum General Index
Table of Contents List of Figures Introduction Chapter 1: Locating the Fault Line: Concepts and Scope Part 1: The Middle Republic: Adaptation Chapter 2: Looking Forward from Archaic Rome Chapter 3: Adapting the Law in the Age of Cato Chapter 4: Ideological Flexibility: Cato and Ennius Chapter 5: Life Before Liberality: Plautus and Terence Chapter 6: The Gracchi and the Failure of Collective Generosity Part 2: The Late Republic: Exploitation Chapter 7: Crooked Generosity in the Late Republic Chapter 8: Cicero between Justice and Expediency Chapter 9: Sallust and the Decline of Reciprocity Chapter 10: Caesar's Wicked Gifts Chapter 11: Atticus: Banker, Benefactor, Paragon Part 3: The Early Empire: Separation Chapter 12: Prying Worlds Apart: The Augustan Response Chapter 13: Seneca's Philosophical Cure Part 4: Conclusions Chapter 14: Halfway to Modernity Appendix Bibliography Index Locorum General Index
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