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The first full-length study of famine in antiquity. The study provides detailed case studies of Athens and Rome, the best known states of antiquity, but also illuminates the institutional response to food crisis in the mass of ordinary cities in the Mediterranean world. Ancient historians have generally shown little interest in investigating the material base of the unique civilisations of the Graeco-Roman world, and have left unexplored the role of the food supply in framing the central institutions and practices of ancient society.

Food supply --- Famines --- Aliments --- History --- Approvisionnement --- Histoire --- -Famines --- -Food supply --- -Food control --- Produce trade --- Agriculture --- Food security --- Single cell proteins --- Famine --- Starvation --- -History --- Food control --- Greece --- Rome --- History. --- Arts and Humanities --- Food supply - Greece - History - To 1500. --- Food supply - Rome. --- Famines - Greece - History - To 1500. --- Famines - Rome.

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This book explores ancient 'foundational' texts relating to property and their reception by later thinkers in their various contexts up to the early nineteenth century. The texts include Plato's vision of an ideal polity in the Republic, Jesus' teachings on renunciation and poverty, and Golden Age narratives and other evolutionary accounts of the transition of mankind from primeval communality to regimes of ownership. The issue of the legitimacy of private ownership exercises the minds of the major political thinkers as well as theologians and jurists throughout the ages. The book gives full consideration to the historical development of Rights Theory, with special reference to the right to property. It ends with a comparative study of the Declarations of Rights in the American and French Revolutions and seeks to explain, with reference to contemporary documents, why the French recognised an inalienable, human right to property whereas the Americans did not.

Right of property --- Property --- Personal property. --- Personal property --- Droit de propriété --- Propriété --- Propriété mobilière --- History. --- Philosophy --- Religious aspects. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Histoire --- Philosophie --- Aspect religieux --- Aspect moral --- History --- Religious aspects --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Droit de propriété --- Propriété --- Propriété mobilière --- Ownership of property --- Private ownership of property, Right of --- Private property, Right of --- Property, Right of --- Property rights --- Right of private ownership of property --- Right of private property --- Right to property --- Chattels --- Choses --- Personalty --- Property, Personal --- Philosophy&delete& --- Law and legislation --- Moral and religious aspects --- Civil rights --- Economics --- Possession (Law) --- Things (Law) --- Wealth --- Primitive property --- Arts and Humanities --- Right of property - History --- Property - Philosophy - History --- Property - Religious aspects --- Personal property - Moral and ethical aspects

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This is the first study of food in classical antiquity that treats it as both a biological and a cultural phenomenon. The variables of food quantity, quality and availability, and the impact of disease, are evaluated and a judgement reached which inclines to pessimism. Food is also a symbol, evoking other basic human needs and desires, especially sex, and performing social and cultural roles which can be either integrative or divisive. The book explores food taboos in Greek, Roman, and Jewish society, and food-allocation within the family, as well as more familiar cultural and economic polarities which are highlighted by food and eating. The author draws on a wide range of evidence new and old, from written sources to human skeletal remains, and uses both comparative historical evidence from early modern and contemporary developing societies and the anthropological literature, to create a case-study of food in antiquity.

Civilization, Classical --- Food habits --- Food supply --- 394.12093 --- Food control --- Produce trade --- Agriculture --- Food security --- Single cell proteins --- Eating --- Food customs --- Foodways --- Human beings --- Habit --- Manners and customs --- Diet --- Nutrition --- Oral habits --- Classical civilization --- Civilization, Ancient --- Classicism --- History --- Social sciences Food Ancient World --- Arts and Humanities --- Civilization, Classical. --- Habitudes alimentaires --- Aliments --- Civilisation ancienne --- History. --- Histoire --- Approvisionnement --- Greece --- Rome --- Civilization [Classical ] --- Food habits - Greece - History - To 1500 --- Food habits - Rome --- Food supply - Greece - History - To 1500 --- Food supply - Rome

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Classical antiquities. --- Working class --- Agricultural laborers