Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity

Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : 0521892902
ISBN-13 : 9780521892902
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Book Synopsis Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity by : Peter Garnsey

Download or read book Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity written by Peter Garnsey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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