Cities, peasants, and food in classical antiquity : essays in social and economic history
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Cities, peasants, and food in classical antiquity : essays in social and economic history
Cambridge University Press, 1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-329) and index
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Description
Sixteen essays in the social and economic history of the ancient world, by a leading historian of classical antiquity, are here brought conveniently together. Three overlapping parts deal with the urban economy and society, peasants and the rural economy, and food-supply and food-crisis. While focusing on eleven centuries of antiquity from archaic Greece to late imperial Rome, the essays include theoretical and comparative analyses of food-crisis and pastoralism, and an interdisciplinary study of the health status of the people of Rome using physical anthropology and nutritional science. A variety of subjects are treated, from the misconduct of a builders' association in late antique Sardis, to a survey of the cultural associations and physiological effects of the broad bean.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Cities: 1. Aspects of the decline of the urban aristocracy in the empire
- 2. Independent freedmen and the economy of Roman Italy under the Principate
- 3. Economy and society of Mediolanum under the Principate
- 4. Urban property investment in Roman society
- 5. An association of builders in late antique Sardis
- Part II. Peasants: 6. Peasants in ancient Roman society
- 7. Where did Italian peasants live?
- 8. Non-slave labour in the Roman world
- 9. Prolegomenon to a study of the land in the later Roman empire
- 10. Mountain economies in southern Europe
- Part III. Food: 11. Grain for Athens
- 12. The yield of the land in ancient Greece
- 13. The bean: substance and symbol
- 14. Mass diet and nutrition in the city of Rome
- 15. Child rearing in ancient Italy
- 16. Famine in history.
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