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Gift and gain : how money transformed Ancient Rome / Neil Coffee.
LIBRA HC39 .C59 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coffee, Neil, author.
- Series:
- Classical culture and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Money--Rome--History.
- Money.
- Rome--Economic conditions--30 B.C.-476 A.D.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Economic conditions.
- Rome--Civilization.
- Civilization.
- Rome--History.
- History.
- Economic history.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 296 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- Part I Orientation
- Introduction 3
- 1 Locating the Fault line: Concepts and Scope 7
- Part II Early Rome: Foundation
- 2 Looking Forward from Archaic Rome 25
- Part III The Middle Republic: Adaptation
- 3 Adapting the Law in the Age of Cato 33
- 4 Ideological Flexibility: Cato and Ennius 47
- 5 Life before Liberality: Plautus and Terence 61
- 6 The Gracchi and the Failure of Collective Generosity 79
- Part IV The Late Republic: Exploitation
- 7 Crooked Generosity in the Late Republic 89
- 8 Cicero between Justice and Expediency 99
- 9 Satirist and the Decline of Reciprocity 109
- 10 Caesar's Wicked Gifts 115
- 11 Atticus: Banker, Benefactor, Paragon 127
- Part V The Early Empire: Separation
- 12 Prying Worlds Apart: The Augustan Response 137
- 13 Seneca's Philosophical Cure 151
- Part VI Conclusions
- 14 Halfway to Modernity 167.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Coffee, Neil, author. Gift and gain
- ISBN:
- 9780190496432
- 0190496436
- OCLC:
- 951172618
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