The commerce of war

Latin epics such as Virgil's 'Aeneid' and Statius's 'Thebaid' addressed Roman aristocrats whose dealings in gifts, favours and payments defined their conceptions of social order. Here Neil Coffee argues that these exchanges play a central yet overlooked role in epic depictions of Roman society.

שנה

2009

שפה

English

הוצאה

University of Chicago Press

מהדורות

4

עמודים

326

ISBN

9780226111872

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata