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Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity

Essays in Social and Economic History

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Paperback | 12 February 2004

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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.

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'The conventions illuminated by G.'s reding of the sources are remarkable, and it is instructive to follow his analysis of the evidence, buttressed by judicious and critical application of comparative materials and anthropological ... the reader has been served a savory meal full of insightful observations and plenty of appetizers'. Scripta Classica Israelica

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Cities
Aspects of the decline of the urban aristocracy in the empire
Independent freedmen and the economy of Roman Italy under the Principate
Economy and society of Mediolanum under the Principate
Urban property investment in Roman society
An association of builders in late antique Sardis
Peasants
Peasants in ancient Roman society
Where did Italian peasants live?
Non-slave labour in the Roman world
Prolegomenon to a study of the land in the later Roman empire
Mountain economies in southern Europe
Food
Grain for Athens
The yield of the land in ancient Greece
The bean: substance and symbol
Mass diet and nutrition in the city of Rome
Child rearing in ancient Italy
Famine in history
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Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity

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