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Book SynopsisThe Gift in Antiquity presents a collection of 14 original essays that apply French sociologist Marcel Mauss s notion of gift-giving to the study of antiquity.
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Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii
Series Editor’s Preface x
Preface xii
1 Introduction 1
Michael L. Satlow
2 Ceremonial Gift-Giving: The Lessons of Anthropology from Mauss and Beyond 12
Marcel Hénaff
3 Alms, Blessings, Offerings: The Repertoire of Christian Gifts in Early Byzantium 25
Daniel F. Caner
4 Gift-Giving and Power Relationships in Greek Social Praxis and Public Discourse 45
Marc Domingo Gygax
5 Fictive Giftship and Fictive Friendship in Greco-Roman Society 61
Zeba Crook
6 Ovid Negotiates with His Mistress: Roman Reciprocity from Public to Private 77
Neil Coffee
7 “Can’t Buy Me Love”: The Economy of Gifts in Amorous Relations 96
David Konstan
8 Without Patronage: Fetishization, Representation, and the Circulation of Gift-Texts in the Late Roman Republic 107
Sarah Culpepper Stroup
9 Roses and Violets for the Ancestors: Gifts to the Dead and Ancient Roman Forms of Social Exchange 122
Nicola Denzey Lewis
10 Graffiti as Gift: Mortuary and Devotional Graffiti in the Late Ancient Levant 137
Karen B. Stern
11 Marriage Gifts in Ancient Greece 158
Beate Wagner-Hasel
12 Charity Wounds: Gifts to the Poor in Early Rabbinic Judaism 173
Gregg E. Gardner
13 Barter Deal or Friend-Making Gift? A Reconsideration of the Conditional Vow in the Hebrew Bible 189
Anne Katrine Gudme
14 Neither Mauss, nor Veyne: Peter Brown’s Interpretative Path to the Gift 202
Ilana F. Silber
15 Gifts for God, Gifts for Rabbis: From Sacrifice to Donation in Rabbinic Tales of Late Antiquity and Their Dialogue with Early Christian Texts 221
Galit Hasan-Rokem
Index of Subjects and Names 245
Index of Ancient Sources 253
