Feeding the Democracy: The Athenian Grain Supply In The Fifth And Fourth Centuries Bc (Oxford Classical Monographs (Paperback))

Feeding the Democracy 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. Full description