Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity
Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity
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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.
- Collection of the papers of an important ancient historian
- Coherent contents
- Addenda sections set papers in context and outline the effect of Garnsey's papers on later developments
Reviews & endorsements
"...this book is useful as an auxiliary text for university students in religion, history, classics, anthropology, and other social sciences as well." Susan Maki-Wallace, Religious Studies Review
"...Peter Garnsey's scholarship on the material foundations okf ancient Greek and Roman life is a pleasure to read and a valuable addition to our knowledge of the subject." Michael Kucher, H-Net Reviews
Product details
February 2004Paperback
9780521892902
356 pages
228 × 157 × 22 mm
0.54kg
5 tables
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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.
