Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome / / ed. by Barbara K. Gold.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Baldwin, Barry,; Gold, Barbara K.,; Griffin, Jasper,; Leach, Eleanor Winsor,; White, Peter,; Williams, Gordon,; Wiseman, T. P.,; Zetzel, James E. G.,
• HerausgeberIn: Gold, Barbara K.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1982
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

Virgil, Horace, Catullus, Propertius—these are just a few of the poets whose work we would be without today were it not for the wealthy and powerful patrons upon whose support the Roman cultural establishment so greatly depended. Who were these patrons? What benefits did they give, to whom, and why?...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• HISTORICAL APPROACH
• Phases in Political Patronage of Literature in Rome
• Pete nobiles amicos: Poets and Patrons in Late Republican Rome
• Positions for Poets in Early Imperial Rome
• Literature and Society in the Later Roman Empire
• LITERARY AND ARTISTIC APPROACH
• The Poetics of Patronage in the Late First Century B.C
• Propertius 3.9: Maecenas as Eques, Dux, Fautor
• The Creation of Characters in the Aeneid
• Patrons, Painters, and Patterns: The Anonymity of Romano-Campanian Painting and the Transition from the Second to the Third Style
• Notes on Contributors
• Abbreviations
• Bibliography