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CITIES, PEASANTS AND FOOD IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
ESSAYS IN SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY |
| By: |
Peter Garnsey, Walter Scheidel (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521892902 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521892902 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
5 January, 2004 |
| Pages: |
356 |
| Description: |
This is a collection of essays in the social and economic history of Greece and Rome by a leading historian of classical antiquity. |
| Synopsis: |
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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5 tables |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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