The Mask of the Parasite: A Pathology of Roman Patronage by Cynthia Damon

The Mask of the Parasite: A Pathology of Roman Patronage

Cynthia Damon

320 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics history literary adventurous medium-paced

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When Romans applied the term parasite to contemporaries in dependent circumstances, or clientes, they were evoking one of the stock characters of ancient Greek comedy. In the Roman world the parasite was moved out of his native genre into the lite...

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