TY - BOOK ID - 3445955 TI - The commerce of war : exchange and social order in Latin epic AU - Coffee, Neil AU - University of Chicago Press PY - 2009 SN - 9780226111872 0226111873 0226111903 1282239481 9786612239489 PB - Chicago ; London University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - Negotiation KW - Reciprocity (Commerce) KW - War in literature. KW - Virgil. KW - Lucan, KW - Statius, P. Papinius KW - Lucan. KW - Lucan, 39-65. KW - Negotiation - Rome. KW - Negotiation -- Rome. KW - Pharsalia. KW - Reciprocity (Commerce) - Rome. KW - Reciprocity (Commerce) -- Rome. KW - Statius, P. Papinius. KW - Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius). KW - Thebais. KW - Virgil. Aeneis. KW - War in literature KW - Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Fair trade (Tariff) KW - Reciprocity KW - Commercial policy KW - Commercial treaties KW - Favored nation clause KW - Tariff KW - Bargaining KW - Dickering KW - Haggling KW - Higgling KW - Negotiating KW - Negotiations KW - Discussion KW - Psychology, Applied KW - Pypłacz, Joanna. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3445955 AB - Latin epics such as Virgil's Aeneid, Lucan's Civil War, and Statius's Thebaid addressed Roman aristocrats whose dealings in gifts, favors, and payments defined their conceptions of social order. In The Commerce of War, Neil Coffee argues that these exchanges play a central yet overlooked role in epic depictions of Roman society. Tracing the collapse of an aristocratic worldview across all three poems, Coffee highlights the distinction they draw between reciprocal gift giving among elites and the more problematic behaviors of buying and ER -