A unique and comprehensive account of attitudes to slavery in ancient Greece and Rome.
Peter Garnsey Livres
22 octobre 1938
Peter Garnsey est Professeur Émérite d'histoire de l'Antiquité Classique. Ses centres d'intérêt de recherche portent sur la théorie politique, l'histoire intellectuelle, l'histoire sociale et économique, l'alimentation, la famine et la nutrition, ainsi que l'anthropologie physique. Il approfondit la compréhension de ces aspects historiques.
Key Themes in Ancient History: Food and Society in Classical Antiquity
- 192pages
- 7 heures de lecture
This is a broad-based, comprehensive general study of food in antiquity. The book deals with food as food or nutrition, the discussion revolving around the concrete issues of food availability and the nutritional status of the population. It also treats the nonfood uses of food, focusing on the role of food in forming and marking the social hierarchy. Food defines the group, whether social, religious, philosophical or political.