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.
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"...accurate and stimulating interpretative account of several interconnected issues to do with the incidence of shortages, and the responses to them of rural dwellers, patrons or benefactors, and governments...Garnsey presents extremely complex, and interrelated, issues and problems, and advanced hypotheses, with exemplary clarity, coolness, and good sense...The book will function both as a reliable introduction to its issues, and as a contribution to them; both functions are ably supported by the full references throughout the book to the best of the literature on the subject." Greece & Rome
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Detailed case studies of Athens and Rome, the best known states of antiquity, reveal the effects of the breakdown of the food supply systems and response to the crisis by the masses of the ancient Mediterranean cities.
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The Chronicle of Ps.-Joshua the Stylite, Chapter 38. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
grain wardens, ooo medimnoi, ooo modii, grain recipients, mild shortage, plebs frumentaria, million modii, grain fund, grain commissioner, famine narratives, severe food crisis, food crises, ooo drachmas, grain law, dry legumes, grain doles, food supply system, distributed grain, state grain, foreign grain, grain fleet, corn dole, grain supply, grain ships, grain distributions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cassius Dio, Black Sea, Asia Minor, Peloponnesian War, Duncan Jones, Gaius Gracchus, Dio Chrys, Septimius Severus, Against Leptines, Against Phormio, Chickpeas Lentils Wheat, Lex Terentia Cassia, Pisidian Antioch, Republican Rome, Thracian Chersonese, Wardens of the Hellespont, Apollonius of Tyana, Great Fire, Severus Alexander, Antoninus Pius, Faenius Rufus, Imperial Italy, Republican Italy, Res Best, Social War New!
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The Chronicle of Ps.-Joshua the Stylite, Chapter 38. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
grain wardens, ooo medimnoi, ooo modii, grain recipients, mild shortage, plebs frumentaria, million modii, grain fund, grain commissioner, famine narratives, severe food crisis, food crises, ooo drachmas, grain law, dry legumes, grain doles, food supply system, distributed grain, state grain, foreign grain, grain fleet, corn dole, grain supply, grain ships, grain distributions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cassius Dio, Black Sea, Asia Minor, Peloponnesian War, Duncan Jones, Gaius Gracchus, Dio Chrys, Septimius Severus, Against Leptines, Against Phormio, Chickpeas Lentils Wheat, Lex Terentia Cassia, Pisidian Antioch, Republican Rome, Thracian Chersonese, Wardens of the Hellespont, Apollonius of Tyana, Great Fire, Severus Alexander, Antoninus Pius, Faenius Rufus, Imperial Italy, Republican Italy, Res Best, Social War New!
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- Works and Days (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints) by Hesiod on 8 pages
- The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides on page 123, page 124, and page 128
- An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome by Tenney Frank in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Ancient World (Seven Wonders of the World) by Neil Morris in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Athenian Empire by Russell Meiggs on page 126, and Back Matter
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- The Book of Acts in Its Graeco-Roman Setting (Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting) by David W. Gill on page 25, page 60, and Back Matter
- Republics Ancient & Modern, Vol. 1: The Ancien Régime in Classical Greece by Paul A. Rahe in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- State and Society in Pre-colonial Asante (African Studies) by T. C. McCaskie in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- After Paul Left Corinth: The Influence of Secular Ethics and Social Change by Mr. Bruce W. Winter on page 217, and Back Matter
- The Ancient Economy by Walter Scheidel on page 21, and Back Matter
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