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Famine and Food Supply in the Graeco-Roman World: Responses to Risk and Crisis Peter Garnsey
Famine and Food Supply in the Graeco-Roman World: Responses to Risk and Crisis
Peter Garnsey
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.
324 pages, 2 line diagrams, 2 maps, 8 tables, bibliography, index
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 25, 1988 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521351980 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 324 |
| Dimensions | 158 × 236 × 28 mm · 664 g |
| Language | English |