02996nam 22006494a 450 99620983710331620230721030234.00-19-160778-90-19-965694-01-282-56376-997866125637680-19-152790-4(CKB)1000000000374995(EBL)716690(OCoLC)615640600(SSID)ssj0001662381(PQKBManifestationID)16448010(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001662381(PQKBWorkID)14994574(PQKB)11076048(SSID)ssj0000086826(PQKBManifestationID)11113712(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000086826(PQKBWorkID)10051904(PQKB)11388740(StDuBDS)EDZ0000073777(MiAaPQ)EBC716690(EXLCZ)99100000000037499520070516d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFeeding the democracy[electronic resource] the Athenian grain supply in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. /Alfonso MorenoOxford Oxford University Pressc20071 online resource (xix, 420 p.)Oxford classical monographsDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-171131-4 0-19-922840-X Includes bibliographical references ( p. [345]-372) and index.Contents; Illustrations; Maps; Tables; Abbreviations; PART I. MODELS AND CALCULATIONS; PART II. ARCHAEOLOGY; PART III. LITERATURE; CONCLUSION; Appendix 1. Relevant Measures; Appendix 2. Land-Leases; Appendix 3. Athenian Law Taxing Lemnos, Imbros, and Scyros, 374/3 BC (GHI II 26); Appendix 4. The Regulation of the Grain Market; Appendix 5. Gazetteer of Grain Sources; Bibliography; Index Locorum; General IndexThe reliance of democracies on vital supplies of energy from distant and non-democratic sources is probably the most pressing and dangerous problem of modern times, but it is not a new phenomenon. Classical Athens, the birthplace of democracy and the largest and historically most important of the ancient Greek city-states, depended for its survival on the constant importation of grain from overseas lands as remote as Ukraine and southern Russia, and this trade was ultimatelycontrolled by powerful politicians, wealthy landowners, and kings. Alfonso Moreno examines how this resource need determiOxford classical monographs.Grain tradeGreeceAthensHistoryTo 1500Athens (Greece)Economic conditionsGrain tradeHistory938/.5Moreno Alfonso1972-516257MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996209837103316Feeding the democracy847122UNISA