Famine and Food Supply in the Graeco-Roman World: Responses to Risk and Crisis

by PeterGarnsey (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  1988

  $75.40

  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.

• New

  Paperback
  1989

  $39.20

  Looking at systems of food supply and their breakdown in the ancient Mediterranean between 600 BC and 500 AD, this book embraces the responses of both peasants and urban populations to the inevitability and unpredictability of food crisis.