Peter Garnsey

Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity

Essays in Social and Economic History
Herausgeber: Scheidel, Walter

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a collection of essays in the social and economic history of Greece and Rome by a leading historian of classical antiquity. They are grouped in three overlapping sections, covering the economy and society of cities; peasants and the rural economy; and food supply and famine. The essays, all previously published, are presented together with bibliographical addenda by Walter Scheidel that summarize and assess scholarly reaction to the author's work. The range of subject matter and approach is wide and the treatment original and provocative.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9780521892902
• ISBN-10: 0521892902
• Artikelnr.: 22017728

Inhaltsangabe

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.