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Nauta, Ruurd R. 2002. Poetry for Patrons. Literary Communication in the Age of Domitian (Mnemosyne Supplementum, 206). Leiden/Boston/Köln, Brill. xiv, 493 p. Pr. € 129, US$ 169.

Nauta, Ruurd R. 2002. Poetry for Patrons. Literary Communication in the Age of Domitian... De novis libris iudicia / K. Coleman / Mnemosyne 60 (2007) 321-326 321 Nauta, Ruurd R. 2002. Poetry for Patrons. Literary Communication in the Age of Domitian (Mnemosyne Supplementum, 206). Leiden/Boston/Köln, Brill. xiv, 493 p. Pr. € 129, US$ 169. ‘Communication’ is surely the most significant word in the title of this book, because the two-way process that it implies is what Ruurd Nauta so clearly and compellingly elucidates in his analysis of literary patronage in the reign of Domi- tian. He takes as his blueprint the study in which Richard Saller applied to Roman 1) society the criteria for patronage established by the sociologist Jeremy Boissevain: such a relationship must be asymmetrical, personal, and reciprocal; the personal aspect, in turn, implies that the relationship is of some duration, and that it is multiplex, comprising more than one type of exchange (by contrast the relation- ship between employer and employee, where nothing but wages and labor is exchanged, is simplex). Nauta’s procedure is systematic: in Part One, on non- imperial patronage and Martial’s Epigrams, he devotes a chapter each to (i) testing the three criteria for patronage, (ii) examining modes of reception for the poetry, and (iii) analyzing its http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

Nauta, Ruurd R. 2002. Poetry for Patrons. Literary Communication in the Age of Domitian (Mnemosyne Supplementum, 206). Leiden/Boston/Köln, Brill. xiv, 493 p. Pr. € 129, US$ 169.

Mnemosyne , Volume 60 (2): 6 – Mar 9, 2007

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De novis libris iudicia / K. Coleman / Mnemosyne 60 (2007) 321-326 321 Nauta, Ruurd R. 2002. Poetry for Patrons. Literary Communication in the Age of Domitian (Mnemosyne Supplementum, 206). Leiden/Boston/Köln, Brill. xiv, 493 p. Pr. € 129, US$ 169. ‘Communication’ is surely the most significant word in the title of this book, because the two-way process that it implies is what Ruurd Nauta so clearly and compellingly elucidates in his analysis of literary patronage in the reign of Domi- tian. He takes as his blueprint the study in which Richard Saller applied to Roman 1) society the criteria for patronage established by the sociologist Jeremy Boissevain: such a relationship must be asymmetrical, personal, and reciprocal; the personal aspect, in turn, implies that the relationship is of some duration, and that it is multiplex, comprising more than one type of exchange (by contrast the relation- ship between employer and employee, where nothing but wages and labor is exchanged, is simplex). Nauta’s procedure is systematic: in Part One, on non- imperial patronage and Martial’s Epigrams, he devotes a chapter each to (i) testing the three criteria for patronage, (ii) examining modes of reception for the poetry, and (iii) analyzing its

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