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

Famine and Food Supply in the Graeco-Roman World Looking at systems of food supply and their breakdown in the ancient Mediterranean between 600 BC and 500 AD, this book embraces the responses of both peasants and urban populations to the inevitability and unpredictability of food crisis. Full descriptionRead More

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  • Blackwell

    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...

  • Book Description

    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.

  • 0521375851
  • 9780521375856
  • Peter Garnsey
  • 21 September 1989
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 303
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