Feeding the democracy [[electronic resource] ] : the Athenian grain supply in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. / / Alfonso Moreno

• Autore: Moreno Alfonso <1972->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xix, 420 p.)
• Disciplina: 938/.5
• Soggetto topico: Grain trade - Greece - Athens - History - To 1500
• Soggetto geografico: Athens (Greece) Economic conditions
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references ( p. [345]-372) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Feeding the democracy
• ISBN: 0-19-160778-9; 0-19-965694-0; 1-282-56376-9; 9786612563768; 0-19-152790-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996209837103316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Oxford classical monographs.