Feeding the Democracy: The Athenian Grain Supply in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC
Book Details
Author(s)
Alfonso Moreno
Publisher
OUP Oxford
ISBN / ASIN
0199656940
ISBN-13
9780199656943
Availability
Habituellement expédié sous 24 h
Sales Rank
#1,919,379
Marketplace
France 🇫🇷
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Description
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
