Poverty in Ancient Greece and Rome (eBook, ePUB)

Realities and Discourses
Redaktion: Carlà-Uhink, Filippo; Machado, Carlos; Cecchet, Lucia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Through a combination of archaeological, epigraphic, and literary evidence, this book offers a comprehensive overview of wealth and poverty in diverse contexts across the Graeco-Roman world. Suitable for students and scholars of ancient history, classical literature, and archaeology, as well as social scientists and social historians.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000645002
• Artikelnr.: 64381037

Autorenporträt

Filippo Carlà-Uhink is professor of Ancient History at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Among his main research areas are the social and economic history of the Roman world, and the history of the Roman Republic, with a special focus on segmentary identities and their discursive construction. He is the author of various books and articles, including The 'Birth' of Italy. The Institutionalization of Italy as a Region in the Roman Republic (2017). Lucia Cecchet is Senior Lecturer in Greek History at the University of Milan. Her research interests focus on poverty and poverty discourses in Greek antiquity and on Greek citizenship from the classical to the imperial period. She is author of Poverty in Athenian Public Discourse (2015) and co-editor (with A. Busetto) of Citizens in the Graeco-Roman World (2017) and (with Ch. Degelmann and M. Patzelt) The Ancient War's Impact on the Home Front (2019). Carlos Machado is senior lecturer in Ancient History at the University of St Andrews, where he directs the Centre for Late Antique Studies. He has published extensively on the social and cultural history of Late Antiquity, and is the author of Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction - Filippo Carlà-Uhink
Lucia Cecchet
and Carlos Machado
Part I: Greece
2. Poverty
Wealth and Social Mobility: The cases of Megara and Athens - Lucia Cecchet
3. Processes of Impoverishment: Bau Z in the Kerameikos and Discourses about Poverty - Claire Taylor
4. Poverty and Honour in Classical Sparta - Gabriel C. Bernardo
5. Greedy Gods and Hungry Humans: Sacrifice and the Poor in Classical and Hellenistic Greece - Irene Berti
6. Poverty and Truth in Ancient Greek Philosophy - Étienne Helmer
Part II: Rome
7. Impoverished Senatorial Women in Mid-Republican Rome: Opima gloria and felix paupertas? - Lewis Webb
8. The Dynamics of Shame: Elite Poverty in Late Republican and Early Imperial Discourse - Christian Rollinger
9. Cicero
the Poor
and Roman Rhetoric - Filippo Carlà-Uhink
10. Rich and Hungry
Poor and Full: Social and Cultural Food Poverty in the Roman World - Erica Rowan
Part III: Late Antiquity
11. 'Not all Poverty is to be Praised': Defining the Poor in a Christian Roman Empire - Daniel Caner
12. Looking for the Poor in Late Antique Rome - Carlos Machado
13. The Poor Facing Late Antique Justice: the Cases from Papyri - Christel Freu
14. Poverty
Charity and the Social Strategies of the "Poor" in Late Antiquity: the View from North Africa in the Age of Augustine - Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira.