Cities, peasants, and food in classical antiquity : essays in social and economic history

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Cities, peasants, and food in classical antiquity : essays in social and economic history

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essays in social and economic history

Statement of responsibility

Peter Garnsey ; edited with addenda by Walter Scheidel

Title variation

Cities, Peasants & Food in Classical Antiquity

Creator

• Garnsey, Peter

Contributor

• Scheidel, Walter, 1966-

Editor

• Scheidel, Walter, 1966-

Subject

• Food supply -- Greece -- History -- To 1500
• Food supply -- Rome
• Cities and towns -- Rome
• Peasants -- Rome

Language

eng

Summary

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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