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Akroterion | 2014

PATRONAGE OF LETTERS IN THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE

Grant Parker

In the sociology of literature over the ages, patronage is undoubtedly one of the most pervasive themes.! The late 1st century AD presents no exception. Though the early Empire lacked a patron having the renown of Maecenas (d. 8 BC), it is nonetheless eminently worthy of study in this regard in view of two contemporary writers - Martial (AD 40- c.103) and Statius (c.45- c.96). Despite manifest differences in style and temperament between these poets, both can be described as occasional poets (i.e. poets composing for specific social occasions) and this fact alone renders patronage highly apposite. Concentrating therefore on that period, I wish here to examine the phenomenon of literary patronage within the context of Roman mores. Broadly speaking, patronage of letters must be situated in the characteristically Roman system of patron-client relations. Topics to be discussed include its terminology and mechanics, origins, its purpose and value - material or otherwise - and the poets economic position in society, and finally its continuity over Roman history. This study is undertaken in the form of a survey of some of the more important critical literature on the subject to have appeared in recent times, but i hope it can serve at the same time as a general introduction to the subject.


Antichthon | 2009

Highways into Byways: The Travels of Tiberius

Grant Parker

Can there be a less promising topic than this? It is well known that Tiberius twice took time off from a busy career, first as heir-apparent and finally as emperor, but at first glance such withdrawals appear to be non-travel rather than travel. By the same token, his military expeditions seem to be tours of duty rather than travel in the sense classical scholars have constituted that rubric. Arguably the Capri stay was not travel but retirement. As the writer Norman Douglas put it, with a hint of apology: ‘In retiring at the close of an arduous life to enjoy the beauties of nature on fabled Siren shores, he was only doing what any civilised person might be expected to do.’ But there is more that can be said. In so far as such movements constitute imperial travel, there is a short but rich section of Millars The Emperor in the Roman World as well as the detailed study by Halfmann, Itinera Principum, to read alongside ancient and modern biographies.


Thesis Eleven | 2001

Porous Connections: The Mediterranean and the Red Sea

Grant Parker

A close reading of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (1st century CE), an anonymous captains manual written in everyday Greek, provides ways of thinking about broader questions concerning the connectedness of the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean. It is located primarily in the Red Sea, an interstitial zone between the two large seas, and concerns long-distance networks of exchange between South Asia, the Arabian peninsula, the Horn of Africa, Alexandria, and beyond that the Mediterranean. Among the issues to emerge are the linear nature of spatial experience and the means by which commodities are mapped. A goal of the article is to identify ways in which to link the practice and representations of travel.


Journal of The Economic and Social History of The Orient | 2002

EX ORIENTE LUXURIA : INDIAN COMMODITIES AND ROMAN EXPERIENCE

Grant Parker


Archive | 2008

The Making of Roman India

Grant Parker; Parker


Archive | 2006

Ancient India in its wider world

Grant Parker; Carla M. Sinopoli


Journal of Roman Archaeology | 2001

Sitting down with the Barrington Atlas

Grant Parker; H Dey; Susan E. Alcock


Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici | 2008

The Gender of Travel: Cynthia and Others

Grant Parker


Archive | 2006

Obelisks still in exile: Monuments made to measure?

Grant Parker


Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology | 2004

Narrating Monumentality: The Piazza Navona Obelisk

Grant Parker

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