by Peter Garnsey · Cambridge University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780521375856
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«Famine and Food Supply in the Graeco-Roman World» is the historical study by Peter Garnsey, paperback (303 pages, English).
Peter Garnsey analyses famine and food supply in Graeco-Roman antiquity, with case studies of Athens and Rome and of many cities around the Mediterranean. The work examines the institutional response to subsistence crises and the weight of provisioning in the social, economic and political organisation of ancient societies.
Originally published in 1989, the full title includes the subtitle «Responses to Risk and Crisis».
A work for historians, students of Ancient History and readers interested in the Graeco-Roman world.
