Trade and Famine in Classical Antiquity

by Peter Garnsey, C.R. Whittaker, C. R. Whittaker

These eleven papers on the trade of essential food stuffs demonstrate that a combination of natural and artificial shortages made inevitable the bulk movement of staple items between regions throughout Antiquity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0906014042
• ISBN13: 9780906014042
• Release Date: December 1983
• Publisher: Cambridge Philological Society
• Length: 127 Pages