Neil Coffee
Biographic Data
| ID | 1127750 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil Coffee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | Coffee |
| SIGNATURE | COFFEE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1273-2052 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Tesserae Intertext Service
The Tesserae Intertext Service Application Programming Interface (TIS-API) enhances the machine-accessibility of the intertext discovery capabilities of the Tesserae software. Instead of requiring inputs through a human-accessible webpage, the TIS-API accepts inputs according to a web development standard. Two case studies demonstrate the contributions of the TIS-API to computer-assisted literary criticism, particularly in increased software deve…
Intertextuality in Flavian Epic Poetry
Introduction to Antipodean Health Geographies
Introduction to Antipodean Health Geographies
Are Perceived and Objective Distances to Fresh Food and Physical Activity Resources Associated with Cardiometabolic Risk
Perceived and objective measures of neighbourhood features have shown limited correspondence. Few studies have examined whether discordance between objective measures and individual perceptions of neighbourhood environments relates to individual health. Individuals with mismatched perceptions may benefit from initiatives to improve understandings of resource availability. This study utilised data from n = 1491 adult participants in a biomedical c…
Cicero between Justice and Expediency
This chapter considers Cicero as the principal witness to the socioeconomic climate of the late Republic, as well as its principal philosophical critic. It begins by reviewing some episodes in Cicero’s career where he was faced with, and analyzes, choices between gift and gain, including a speech dealing with how provincial governors should act toward their subjects, and the accusations he faced of violating the law for receiving payment for his …
Prying Worlds Apart
This chapter examines how Augustus and his contemporaries responded to the breakdown of gift culture in the late Republic. Augustus passed a series of legal measures to support gift relationships, in marriage and between patrons and clients. He led by example with his generosity at all levels. He tried to once again separate gift giving from gainful activities, and restore a proper balance between the spheres of exchange. Others, such as the poet…
Crooked Generosity in the Late Republic
This chapter surveys the climate of exchange in the late Republic. It centers on a discussion of key concepts of money, greed, debt, generosity, and profit. Through a quantitative look at the frequency of these words in our sources, it illustrates how the use of some key notions of money and commerce rose in the late Republic, along with the growth of commerce, and that the use of the concept of generosity (as liberalitas) also rose. Elites more …
Halfway to Modernity
This chapter summarizes the argument for the historical decline in Roman gift culture due to increasing commodity culture, drawing together the various strands of evidence. Cross-culturally, it compares the change with the effects of money on generosity described in laboratory experiments by Daniel Kahneman. In the longer view of Western culture, Rome appears as a society halfway to modernity, with some market institutions and a continued relianc…
Sallust and the Decline of Reciprocity
This chapter presents the perspective on late Republican socioeconomic life of the major Roman historian of the era, Sallust. Sallust makes proportionally far more mentions of greed and debt than any other Roman author, showing that the effects of socioeconomic conduct were important in his view of how the political culture he was analyzing worked. Sallust also makes a special place for describing the decline of true gift giving, in a comment on …
Atticus
This chapter takes the late Republican figure of Titus Pomponius Atticus as a counterpoint example to Julius Caesar. Atticus is represented by both his good friend Cicero and his biographer Cornelius Nepos as a man who manages to balance perfectly judicious and genuinely motivated gift giving, including to those in dire need, with a deep but proper engagement in a variety of commercial enterprises. This seems to have been mostly true, but in the …
Life before Liberality
This chapter compares the perspectives on gift and commerce presented by two comic playwrights, Plautus, writing at the beginning of the middle Republic, and Terence, writing toward the end of the period. Both wrote for broad audiences and so offer views of what a wider range of Romans might have thought. The comedies of Plautus give evidence of a flexible conception of gift and gain like that found in Cato and Ennius, where the pitfalls of gift …
Caesar’s Wicked Gifts
This chapter shows how Julius Caesar fully exploited the socioeconomic climate of late Republican Rome for his political advancement and so helped accelerate the pressures on gift giving and the shift to commodity culture. Caesar was renowned for his beneficence, because his generosity to friends and the people, as well as his clemency, surpassed those of his peers. In fact, Caesar refers to his generosity as part of a well-considered political s…
Ideological Flexibility
This chapter considers the elite perspective on socioeconomic life in the middle Republic through the eyes of two key figures, Cato and Ennius. Cato’s commitment to thrift left him more open to the virtues of commerce than Cicero and others would later be. Greed was not the overriding concern it would later become either, but more attention was paid to how money was spent, which he and others sought to control through sumptuary laws. In his epic …
Gift and Gain
The economy of ancient Rome, with its money, complex credit arrangements, and long-range shipping, was surprisingly modern. Yet Romans also exchanged goods and services within a robust system of gifts and favors, which sustained the supportive relationships necessary for survival in the absence of the extensive state and social institutions. In Gift and Gain: How Money Transformed Ancient Rome, Neil Coffee shows how a vibrant commercial culture p…
International variation in neighborhood walkability, transit, and recreation environments using geographic information systems
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization recommends strategies to improve urban design, public transportation, and recreation facilities to facilitate physical activity for non-communicable disease prevention for an increasingly urbanized global population. Most evidence supporting environmental associations with physical activity comes from single countries or regions with limited variation in urban form. This paper documents variation in compa…
Area-Level Socioeconomic Characteristics, Prevalence and Trajectories of Cardiometabolic Risk
This study examines the relationships between area-level socioeconomic position (SEP) and the prevalence and trajectories of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and the count of its constituents (i.e., disturbed glucose and insulin metabolism, abdominal obesity, dyslipidemia, and hypertension). A cohort of 4,056 men and women aged 18+ living in Adelaide, Australia was established in 2000-2003. MetS was ascertained at baseline, four and eight years via clin…
Investigating Individual- and Area-Level Socioeconomic Gradients of Pulse Pressure among Normotensive and Hypertensive Participants
Socioeconomic status is a strong predictor of cardiovascular disease. Pulse pressure, the difference between systolic and diastolic blood pressure, has been identified as an important predictor of cardiovascular risk even after accounting for absolute measures of blood pressure. However, little is known about the social determinants of pulse pressure. The aim of this study was to examine individual- and area-level socioeconomic gradients of pulse…
Intertextuality in Latin Poetry
The phenomenon of meaningful connections between texts, or “intertextuality,” has been defined and addressed differently over time. In pre-Alexandrian antiquity, discussion focused on large-scale influence of authors and literary works upon one another. Alexandrian scholarship introduced the study of small-scale verbal correspondences, which were generally regarded as acts of imitation (mimesis/imitatio) or rivalry (zelos/aemulatio). A continuous…
Reciprocity
In the usage of anthropologists and historians, “reciprocity” signifies a mode of exchange that includes the giving and receiving of gifts and favors.
Gift‐exchange
The phrase gift‐exchange refers to the giving of gifts and favors in a cycle that generates a relationship between giver and receiver. Gift‐exchange was understood in Classical Antiquity as distinct from the major alternative form of exchange, commodity payment.
The Tesserae Project
Tesserae is a web-based tool for automatically detecting allusions in Latin poetry. Although still in the start-up phase, it already is capable of identifying significant numbers of known allusions, as well as similar numbers of allusions previously unnoticed by scholars. In this article, we use the tool to examine allusions to Vergil’s Aeneid in the first book of Lucan’s Civil War. Approximately 3,000 linguistic parallels returned by the program…
Active Latin
This article examines the current state of active Latin pedagogy and practice, which includes speaking and writing as well as listening. It offers a short historical survey of the activities, methods, and aims of active Latin practitioners to provide bearings for those working with these methods, and information for those unfamiliar with them
Social Relations in Lucan’S Bellum Civile
This chapter describes how Lucan makes the disruption of social ties in civil war appear particularly acute. Apart from Pompey, who is too weak to successfully champion them, elites abandon and violate the social values of fides, gratia, and pietas. This failure is thrown into relief by their limited performance of social relations: only Romans of lower social status generally uphold relational values by acting them out. Romans also suffer by com…
The Commerce of War
The commerce of war
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
Walkability of local communities
Residents’ perceptions of walkability attributes in objectively different neighbourhoods
Gift and Gain
The economy of ancient Rome, with its money, complex credit arrangements, and long-range shipping, was surprisingly modern. Yet Romans also exchanged goods and services within a robust system of gifts and favors, which sustained the supportive relationships necessary for survival in the absence of the extensive state and social institutions. In Gift and Gain: How Money Transformed Ancient Rome, Neil Coffee shows how a vibrant commercial culture p…
The Tesserae Project
Tesserae is a web-based tool for automatically detecting allusions in Latin poetry. Although still in the start-up phase, it already is capable of identifying significant numbers of known allusions, as well as similar numbers of allusions previously unnoticed by scholars. In this article, we use the tool to examine allusions to Vergil’s Aeneid in the first book of Lucan’s Civil War. Approximately 3,000 linguistic parallels returned by the program…
Active Latin
This article examines the current state of active Latin pedagogy and practice, which includes speaking and writing as well as listening. It offers a short historical survey of the activities, methods, and aims of active Latin practitioners to provide bearings for those working with these methods, and information for those unfamiliar with them
Residents’ perceptions of walkability attributes in objectively different neighbourhoods
Walkability of local communities
The Φopthγoi; Of Theognis 667–82
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Neighborhood Walkability and the Walking Behavior of Australian Adults
The Commerce of War
The commerce of war
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
Social Relations in Lucan’S Bellum Civile
This chapter describes how Lucan makes the disruption of social ties in civil war appear particularly acute. Apart from Pompey, who is too weak to successfully champion them, elites abandon and violate the social values of fides, gratia, and pietas. This failure is thrown into relief by their limited performance of social relations: only Romans of lower social status generally uphold relational values by acting them out. Romans also suffer by com…
Reciprocity
In the usage of anthropologists and historians, “reciprocity” signifies a mode of exchange that includes the giving and receiving of gifts and favors.
Gift‐exchange
The phrase gift‐exchange refers to the giving of gifts and favors in a cycle that generates a relationship between giver and receiver. Gift‐exchange was understood in Classical Antiquity as distinct from the major alternative form of exchange, commodity payment.
The Tesserae Project
Tesserae is a web-based tool for automatically detecting allusions in Latin poetry. Although still in the start-up phase, it already is capable of identifying significant numbers of known allusions, as well as similar numbers of allusions previously unnoticed by scholars. In this article, we use the tool to examine allusions to Vergil’s Aeneid in the first book of Lucan’s Civil War. Approximately 3,000 linguistic parallels returned by the program…
Active Latin
This article examines the current state of active Latin pedagogy and practice, which includes speaking and writing as well as listening. It offers a short historical survey of the activities, methods, and aims of active Latin practitioners to provide bearings for those working with these methods, and information for those unfamiliar with them
Investigating Individual- and Area-Level Socioeconomic Gradients of Pulse Pressure among Normotensive and Hypertensive Participants
Socioeconomic status is a strong predictor of cardiovascular disease. Pulse pressure, the difference between systolic and diastolic blood pressure, has been identified as an important predictor of cardiovascular risk even after accounting for absolute measures of blood pressure. However, little is known about the social determinants of pulse pressure. The aim of this study was to examine individual- and area-level socioeconomic gradients of pulse…
Intertextuality in Latin Poetry
The phenomenon of meaningful connections between texts, or “intertextuality,” has been defined and addressed differently over time. In pre-Alexandrian antiquity, discussion focused on large-scale influence of authors and literary works upon one another. Alexandrian scholarship introduced the study of small-scale verbal correspondences, which were generally regarded as acts of imitation (mimesis/imitatio) or rivalry (zelos/aemulatio). A continuous…
International variation in neighborhood walkability, transit, and recreation environments using geographic information systems
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization recommends strategies to improve urban design, public transportation, and recreation facilities to facilitate physical activity for non-communicable disease prevention for an increasingly urbanized global population. Most evidence supporting environmental associations with physical activity comes from single countries or regions with limited variation in urban form. This paper documents variation in compa…
Area-Level Socioeconomic Characteristics, Prevalence and Trajectories of Cardiometabolic Risk
This study examines the relationships between area-level socioeconomic position (SEP) and the prevalence and trajectories of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and the count of its constituents (i.e., disturbed glucose and insulin metabolism, abdominal obesity, dyslipidemia, and hypertension). A cohort of 4,056 men and women aged 18+ living in Adelaide, Australia was established in 2000-2003. MetS was ascertained at baseline, four and eight years via clin…
Cicero between Justice and Expediency
This chapter considers Cicero as the principal witness to the socioeconomic climate of the late Republic, as well as its principal philosophical critic. It begins by reviewing some episodes in Cicero’s career where he was faced with, and analyzes, choices between gift and gain, including a speech dealing with how provincial governors should act toward their subjects, and the accusations he faced of violating the law for receiving payment for his …
Prying Worlds Apart
This chapter examines how Augustus and his contemporaries responded to the breakdown of gift culture in the late Republic. Augustus passed a series of legal measures to support gift relationships, in marriage and between patrons and clients. He led by example with his generosity at all levels. He tried to once again separate gift giving from gainful activities, and restore a proper balance between the spheres of exchange. Others, such as the poet…
Crooked Generosity in the Late Republic
This chapter surveys the climate of exchange in the late Republic. It centers on a discussion of key concepts of money, greed, debt, generosity, and profit. Through a quantitative look at the frequency of these words in our sources, it illustrates how the use of some key notions of money and commerce rose in the late Republic, along with the growth of commerce, and that the use of the concept of generosity (as liberalitas) also rose. Elites more …
Halfway to Modernity
This chapter summarizes the argument for the historical decline in Roman gift culture due to increasing commodity culture, drawing together the various strands of evidence. Cross-culturally, it compares the change with the effects of money on generosity described in laboratory experiments by Daniel Kahneman. In the longer view of Western culture, Rome appears as a society halfway to modernity, with some market institutions and a continued relianc…
Sallust and the Decline of Reciprocity
This chapter presents the perspective on late Republican socioeconomic life of the major Roman historian of the era, Sallust. Sallust makes proportionally far more mentions of greed and debt than any other Roman author, showing that the effects of socioeconomic conduct were important in his view of how the political culture he was analyzing worked. Sallust also makes a special place for describing the decline of true gift giving, in a comment on …
Atticus
This chapter takes the late Republican figure of Titus Pomponius Atticus as a counterpoint example to Julius Caesar. Atticus is represented by both his good friend Cicero and his biographer Cornelius Nepos as a man who manages to balance perfectly judicious and genuinely motivated gift giving, including to those in dire need, with a deep but proper engagement in a variety of commercial enterprises. This seems to have been mostly true, but in the …
Life before Liberality
This chapter compares the perspectives on gift and commerce presented by two comic playwrights, Plautus, writing at the beginning of the middle Republic, and Terence, writing toward the end of the period. Both wrote for broad audiences and so offer views of what a wider range of Romans might have thought. The comedies of Plautus give evidence of a flexible conception of gift and gain like that found in Cato and Ennius, where the pitfalls of gift …
Caesar’s Wicked Gifts
This chapter shows how Julius Caesar fully exploited the socioeconomic climate of late Republican Rome for his political advancement and so helped accelerate the pressures on gift giving and the shift to commodity culture. Caesar was renowned for his beneficence, because his generosity to friends and the people, as well as his clemency, surpassed those of his peers. In fact, Caesar refers to his generosity as part of a well-considered political s…
Ideological Flexibility
This chapter considers the elite perspective on socioeconomic life in the middle Republic through the eyes of two key figures, Cato and Ennius. Cato’s commitment to thrift left him more open to the virtues of commerce than Cicero and others would later be. Greed was not the overriding concern it would later become either, but more attention was paid to how money was spent, which he and others sought to control through sumptuary laws. In his epic …
Gift and Gain
The economy of ancient Rome, with its money, complex credit arrangements, and long-range shipping, was surprisingly modern. Yet Romans also exchanged goods and services within a robust system of gifts and favors, which sustained the supportive relationships necessary for survival in the absence of the extensive state and social institutions. In Gift and Gain: How Money Transformed Ancient Rome, Neil Coffee shows how a vibrant commercial culture p…
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