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This book explores all the important aspects of patronage—a topic crucial to the study of literature and art from Homer to the present day.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Historical Approach
    • Phases in Political Patronage of Literature in Rome (Gordon Williams)
    • Pete nobiles amicos: Poets and Patrons in Late Republican Rome (T. P. Wiseman)
    • Positions for Poets in Early Imperial Rome (Peter White)
    • Literature and Society in the Later Roman Empire (Barry Baldwin)
  • Literary and Artistic Approach
    • The Poetics of Patronage in the Late First Century B.C. (James E. G. Zetzel)
    • Propertius 3.9: Maecenas as Eques, Dux, Fautor (Barbara K. Gold)
    • The Creation of Characters in the Aeneid (Jasper Griffin)
    • Patrons, Painters, and Patterns: The Anonymity of Romano-Campanian Painting and the Transition from the Second to the Third Style (Eleanor Winsor Leach)
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Abbreviations
  • Bibliography

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/05/1982
      ISBN13: 9780292740983, 978-0292740983
      ISBN10: 0292740980

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book explores all the important aspects of patronage—a topic crucial to the study of literature and art from Homer to the present day.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Introduction
      • Historical Approach
        • Phases in Political Patronage of Literature in Rome (Gordon Williams)
        • Pete nobiles amicos: Poets and Patrons in Late Republican Rome (T. P. Wiseman)
        • Positions for Poets in Early Imperial Rome (Peter White)
        • Literature and Society in the Later Roman Empire (Barry Baldwin)
      • Literary and Artistic Approach
        • The Poetics of Patronage in the Late First Century B.C. (James E. G. Zetzel)
        • Propertius 3.9: Maecenas as Eques, Dux, Fautor (Barbara K. Gold)
        • The Creation of Characters in the Aeneid (Jasper Griffin)
        • Patrons, Painters, and Patterns: The Anonymity of Romano-Campanian Painting and the Transition from the Second to the Third Style (Eleanor Winsor Leach)
      • Notes on Contributors
      • Abbreviations
      • Bibliography

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