Personal patronage under the early Empire / Richard P. Saller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saller, Richard P., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Patron and client--Rome.

Patron and client.

Rome--Politics and government.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Personal patronage was an accepted element in the functioning of Roman society. It is usually considered to be a particularly Republican phenomenon, which declined as other mechanisms developed with the growth of the imperial bureaucracy. Dr Saller's book, the first major study of patronage in the early Empire, shows that the patron-client relationship continued on much the same basis into the third century AD. Drawing on literary and epigraphic sources, he examines the language and ideology of the patron-client exchange, and then investigates how the exchange functioned in the political, economic and social life of the Roman world from the imperial court to the subjects in the provinces. A case study of North Africa illustrates the importance of patronage relationships in a province which produced many members of the new bureaucracy and also eventually an emperor, with consequences for the range of patronage bonds.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

9780511096778

0511096771

9780511583612

0511583613

Publisher Number:

2027/heb01465 hdl