Margaret Atkins / Robin Osborne (eds.)
Poverty in the Roman World
Herausgeber: Atkins, Margaret; Osborne, Robin
Margaret Atkins / Robin Osborne (eds.)
Poverty in the Roman World
Herausgeber: Atkins, Margaret; Osborne, Robin
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Examines how Romans thought about the poor and about the appropriate ways to relieve poverty.
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Examines how Romans thought about the poor and about the appropriate ways to relieve poverty.
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Seitenzahl: 244
- Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2009
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
- Gewicht: 554g
- ISBN-13: 9780521862110
- ISBN-10: 0521862116
- Artikelnr.: 23182290
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Seitenzahl: 244
- Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2009
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
- Gewicht: 554g
- ISBN-13: 9780521862110
- ISBN-10: 0521862116
- Artikelnr.: 23182290
Margaret Atkins is a Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. She was previously Senior Lecturer in Theology at Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds. She has published with Cambridge University Press translations of Cicero's De Officiis, Augustine's political writings and Aquinas' Disputed Questions on the Virtues.
Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College. His numerous publications include Greece in the Making (1996), Archaic and Classical Greek Art (1998), Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy (1999, edited with Simon Goldhill) and Greek Historical Inscriptions from the End of the Peloponnesian War to the Death of Alexander (2003, edited with P. J. Rhodes).
Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College. His numerous publications include Greece in the Making (1996), Archaic and Classical Greek Art (1998), Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy (1999, edited with Simon Goldhill) and Greek Historical Inscriptions from the End of the Peloponnesian War to the Death of Alexander (2003, edited with P. J. Rhodes).
1. Introduction: Roman poverty in context Robin Osborne
2. The poor in the city of Rome Neville Morley
3. Stratification, deprivation and quality of life Walter Scheidel
4. 'You do him no service': an exploration of pagan almsgiving Anneliese Parkin
5. Writing poverty in Rome Greg Woolf
6. Population and poverty in Roman Egypt Dominic Rathbone
7. A pragmatic approach to poverty and riches: Ambrosiaster's Quaestio CXXIV Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe
8. Portraying the poor: descriptions of poverty in Christian texts from the Late Roman Empire Richard Finn
9. Throwing parties for the poor: poverty and splendour in the late antique Church Lucy Grig
10. Rhetoric and reality in Salvian of Marseille's portrayal of the poor Cam Grey
11. Poverty and Roman law Caroline Humfress
Bibliography
Index.
2. The poor in the city of Rome Neville Morley
3. Stratification, deprivation and quality of life Walter Scheidel
4. 'You do him no service': an exploration of pagan almsgiving Anneliese Parkin
5. Writing poverty in Rome Greg Woolf
6. Population and poverty in Roman Egypt Dominic Rathbone
7. A pragmatic approach to poverty and riches: Ambrosiaster's Quaestio CXXIV Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe
8. Portraying the poor: descriptions of poverty in Christian texts from the Late Roman Empire Richard Finn
9. Throwing parties for the poor: poverty and splendour in the late antique Church Lucy Grig
10. Rhetoric and reality in Salvian of Marseille's portrayal of the poor Cam Grey
11. Poverty and Roman law Caroline Humfress
Bibliography
Index.
1. Introduction: Roman poverty in context Robin Osborne
2. The poor in the city of Rome Neville Morley
3. Stratification, deprivation and quality of life Walter Scheidel
4. 'You do him no service': an exploration of pagan almsgiving Anneliese Parkin
5. Writing poverty in Rome Greg Woolf
6. Population and poverty in Roman Egypt Dominic Rathbone
7. A pragmatic approach to poverty and riches: Ambrosiaster's Quaestio CXXIV Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe
8. Portraying the poor: descriptions of poverty in Christian texts from the Late Roman Empire Richard Finn
9. Throwing parties for the poor: poverty and splendour in the late antique Church Lucy Grig
10. Rhetoric and reality in Salvian of Marseille's portrayal of the poor Cam Grey
11. Poverty and Roman law Caroline Humfress
Bibliography
Index.
2. The poor in the city of Rome Neville Morley
3. Stratification, deprivation and quality of life Walter Scheidel
4. 'You do him no service': an exploration of pagan almsgiving Anneliese Parkin
5. Writing poverty in Rome Greg Woolf
6. Population and poverty in Roman Egypt Dominic Rathbone
7. A pragmatic approach to poverty and riches: Ambrosiaster's Quaestio CXXIV Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe
8. Portraying the poor: descriptions of poverty in Christian texts from the Late Roman Empire Richard Finn
9. Throwing parties for the poor: poverty and splendour in the late antique Church Lucy Grig
10. Rhetoric and reality in Salvian of Marseille's portrayal of the poor Cam Grey
11. Poverty and Roman law Caroline Humfress
Bibliography
Index.