Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity

Abstract

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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Peter Garnsey (1998). Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge University Press eBooks. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511585395

@book{peter1998cities,
  title  = {Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity},
  author = {Garnsey, Peter},
  year   = {1998},
  publisher = {Cambridge University Press eBooks},
  doi    = {10.1017/cbo9780511585395}
}

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