Poverty, Wealth, and Well-Being - Experiencing Penia in Democratic Athens

Zusatztext Scholars on Athenian democracy should read this book. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, faculty. Informationen zum Autor Claire Taylor is the John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Associate Professor of Ancient Greek History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her publications include Communities and Networks in the Ancient Greek World (OUP, 2015), co-edited with Kostas Vlassopoulos, and Ancient Graffiti in Context (Routledge, 2011), co-edited with J. A. Baird. In addition she has published on various topics related to Athenian democracy, women's social networks, and epigraphic evidence as a source for ancient history. Klappentext In fifth- and fourth-century BCE Athens 'poverty' encompassed not only destitution, but also the need to work for a living. This volume considers what it meant to be poor in this sense, arguing that it should be understood not just as an economic condition, but also in terms of social relations, capabilities, and well-being. Zusammenfassung In fifth- and fourth-century BCE Athens 'poverty' encompassed not only destitution, but also the need to work for a living. This volume considers what it meant to be poor in this sense, arguing that it should be understood not just as an economic condition, but also in terms of social relations, capabilities, and well-being.

Product details

• Authors: Claire Taylor, Claire (John W. And Jeanne M. Rowe Associa Taylor, Taylor Claire
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2017
• EAN: 9780198786931
• ISBN: 978-0-19-878693-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, HISTORY / Civilization, HISTORY / Ancient / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Poverty & unemployment, Economic history, Ancient World, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Archaeology by period / region, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Poverty and precarity