FAMINE AND FOOD SUPPLY IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD by Peter Garnsey ( 9780521351980 )

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Title:

FAMINE AND FOOD SUPPLY IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD
RESPONSES TO RISK AND CRISIS

By:

Peter Garnsey

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Hardback

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0521351987

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9780521351980

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

25 February, 1988

Pages:

324

Description:

This book is about systems of food supply and their breakdown in the ancient Mediterranean (about 600BC - AD 500). It embraces the responses of both peasants and urban populations to the inevitability and unpredictability of food crisis and provides a case study of both Athens and Rome.

Synopsis:

The first full-length study of famine in antiquity. The study provides detailed case studies of Athens and Rome, the best known states of antiquity, but also illuminates the institutional response to food crisis in the mass of ordinary cities in the Mediterranean world. Ancient historians have generally shown little interest in investigating the material base of the unique civilisations of the Graeco-Roman world, and have left unexplored the role of the food supply in framing the central institutions and practices of ancient society.

Illustrations:

2 line diagrams, 2 maps, 8 tables, bibliography, index

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Cambridge University Press

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