Title: The commerce of war
First published: 2009
Description: Latin epics such as Virgil's 'Aeneid' and Statius's 'Thebaid' addressed Roman aristocrats whose dealings in gifts, favours and payments defined their conceptions of social order. Here Neil Coffee argues that these exchanges play a central yet overlooked role in epic depictions of Roman society.
Subjects: Negotiation, War in literature, Reciprocity (Commerce), Statius, p. papinius (publius papinius), Commercial policy
Places: Rome
People: P. Papinius Statius, Lucan (39-65), Virgil
LC classification: PA6029.W37 C64 2009