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

by Peter Garnsey

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521375851
• ISBN13: 9780521375856
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"