Poverty in the Roman World

Informationen zum Autor Margaret Atkins is a Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall! Oxford. She was previously Senior Lecturer in Theology at Trinity and All Saints College! Leeds. She has published with Cambridge University Press translations of Cicero's De Officiis! Augustine's political writings and Aquinas' Disputed Questions on the Virtues. Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College. His numerous publications include Greece in the Making (1996)! Archaic and Classical Greek Art (1998)! Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy (1999! edited with Simon Goldhill) and Greek Historical Inscriptions from the End of the Peloponnesian War to the Death of Alexander (2003! edited with P. J. Rhodes). Klappentext Examines how Romans thought about the poor and about the appropriate ways to relieve poverty. Zusammenfassung What is poverty? What is to be done about it? These are difficult questions in any period. This book looks at how Romans thought about the poor and about the appropriate ways to relieve poverty. It considers their political importance and how far the rise of Christianity affected their treatment. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Roman poverty in context Robin Osborne; 2. The poor in the city of Rome Neville Morley; 3. Stratification, deprivation and quality of life Walter Scheidel; 4. 'You do him no service': an exploration of pagan almsgiving Anneliese Parkin; 5. Writing poverty in Rome Greg Woolf; 6. Population and poverty in Roman Egypt Dominic Rathbone; 7. A pragmatic approach to poverty and riches: Ambrosiaster's Quaestio CXXIV Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe; 8. Portraying the poor: descriptions of poverty in Christian texts from the Late Roman Empire Richard Finn; 9. Throwing parties for the poor: poverty and splendour in the late antique Church Lucy Grig; 10. Rhetoric and reality in Salvian of Marseille's portrayal of the poor Cam Grey; 11. Poverty and Roman law Caroline Humfress; Bibliography; Index....

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• Authors: Margaret Atkins, Margaret (Blackfriars Hall Atkins, Margaret Osborne Atkins
• Assisted by: Margaret Atkins (Editor), Atkins Margaret (Editor), Robin Osborne (Editor), Osborne Robin (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.09.2009
• EAN: 9780521106573
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10657-3
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Poverty & unemployment, Ancient Rome, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Poverty and precarity