Feeding the democracy the Athenian grain supply in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.
Alfonso Moreno presents a 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 glob...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2007, c2007
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| Series: | Oxford classical monographs / Oxford classical monographs
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Alfonso Moreno presents a 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 globalised as our own |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 420 p. ill |
| ISBN: | 9780191711312 |