Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity: Essays in Social and Economic History

di Peter Garnsey (Autore)

Walter Scheidel (Curatore)

Cambridge University Press, 2004

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.

• Autore: Peter Garnsey
• Curatore: Walter Scheidel
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Anno: 2004
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 356 p.
• Dimensioni: 228 x 157 mm
• Peso: 540 gr.
• EAN: 9780521892902

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