The gift in antiquity / edited by Michael L. Satlow. [electronic resource] Satlow, Michael L. Gifts History. Civilization, Ancient. GT3050 .G55 2013eb 394 23 Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (Wiley, viewed September 17, 2013). The Gift in Antiquity presents a collection of 14 original essays that apply French sociologist Marcel Mauss's notion of gift-giving to the study of antiquity. Covers such wide-ranging topics as vows in the Hebrew Bible; ancient Greek wedding gifts; Hellenistic civic practices; Latin literature; Roman and Jewish burial practices; and Jewish and Christian religious giftsOrganizes essays around theoretical concerns rather than chronologicallyTakes an explicitly cross-cultural approach to the study of ancient history. Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. 2013. 2013 Text 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118517895 eng The ancient world. Comparative histories Ancient world--comparative histories. Gift in antiquity. Gift in antiquity.