Literature and Society in the Later Roman Empire

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction xi
5. HISTORICAL APPROACH
6. Phases in Political Patronage of Literature in Rome 3
7. Pete nobiles amicos: Poets and Patrons in Late Republican Rome 28
8. Positions for Poets in Early Imperial Rome 50
9. Literature and Society in the Later Roman Empire 67
10. LITERARY AND ARTISTIC APPROACH
11. The Poetics of Patronage in the Late First Century B.C 87
12. Propertius 3.9: Maecenas as Eques, Dux, Fautor 103
13. The Creation of Characters in the Aeneid 118
14. Patrons, Painters, and Patterns: The Anonymity of Romano-Campanian Painting and the Transition from the Second to the Third Style 135
15. Notes on Contributors 174
16. Abbreviations 175
17. Bibliography 177