Cities, peasants and food in classical antiquity : essays in social and economic history /
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 focus...
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
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1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Aspects of the decline of the urban aristocracy in the empire
- Independent freedmen and the economy of Roman Italy under the Principate
- Economy and society of Mediolanum under the Principate
- Urban property investment in Roman society
- An association of builders in late antique Sardis
- Peasants in ancient Roman society
- Where did Italian peasants live?
- Non-slave labour in the Roman world.
- Prolegomenon to a study of the land in the later Roman empire
- Mountain economies in southern Europe
- Grain for Athens
- The yield of the land in ancient Greece
- The bean: substance and symbol
- Mass diet and nutrition in the city of Rome
- Child rearing in ancient Italy
- Famine in history.
