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200 10$aFeeding the democracy$b[electronic resource] $ethe Athenian grain supply in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. /$fAlfonso Moreno
210   $aOxford $cOxford University Press$dc2007
215   $a1 online resource (xix, 420 p.)
225 1 $aOxford classical monographs
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references ( p. [345]-372) and index.
327   $aContents; 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 Index
330   $aThe 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 determi
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