Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity: Essays in Social and Economic History
by Peter Garnsey , Edited by Walter ScheidelFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-02-12
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| Part I. Cities: 1. Aspects of the decline of the urban aristocracy in the empire | |
| 2. Independent freedmen and the economy of Roman Italy under the Principate | |
| 3. Economy and society of Mediolanum under the Principate | |
| 4. Urban property investment in Roman society | |
| 5. An association of builders in late antique Sardis | |
| Part II. Peasants: 6. Peasants in ancient Roman society | |
| 7. Where did Italian peasants live? | |
| 8. Non-slave labour in the Roman world | |
| 9. Prolegomenon to a study of the land in the later Roman empire | |
| 10. Mountain economies in southern Europe | |
| Part III. Food: 11. Grain for Athens | |
| 12. The yield of the land in ancient Greece | |
| 13. The bean: substance and symbol | |
| 14. Mass diet and nutrition in the city of Rome | |
| 15. Child rearing in ancient Italy | |
| 16. Famine in history. |
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