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

Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Incidence and Severity of Food Crisis; 1. Famine and shortage; 2. The frequency of food crisis; 3. The infrequency of famine; Part II. Survival Strategies: 4. Subsistence and survival: the peasantry; 5. Supply and distribution: urban communities; Part III. Food Supply and Food Crisis in Athens c. 600¿322 BC; 6. The resources of Attica; 7. The beginnings of dependence; 8. Rulers of the sea; 9. Vulnerability and vigilance; 10. From uncertainty to crisis; Part IV. Food Supply and

Product details

• Authors: Peter Garnsey
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.02.1988
• EAN: 9780521351980
• ISBN: 978-0-521-35198-0
• No. of pages: 324
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, General and world history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE