Feeding the Democracy: The Athenian Grain Supply in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC

Feeding the Democracy: The Athenian Grain Supply in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC
ISBN-10
019922840X
ISBN-13
9780199228409
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
420
Language
English
Published
2007-10-25
Publisher
Oxford University Press on Demand
Authors
Alfonso Moreno, Andrew and Randall Crawley Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History Magdalen College Oxford University Alfonso Moreno

Description

Alfonso Moreno presents a sweeping re-interpretation of the economy and society of ancient Athens, showing how the city depended for its survival on a supply of grain from overseas sources. The need for grain determined Athenian foreign policy, prompting military conquest, and revealing a Greek world as globalized as our own.

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