Poverty in Ancient Greece and Rome: Discourses and Realities

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I Greece -- Chapter 2 Poverty, Wealth, and Social Mobility: The Cases of Megara and Athens -- Chapter 3 Processes of Impoverishment: Bau Z in the Kerameikos an...

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Main Author: Carlà-Uhink, Filippo (Author)
Contributors: Cecchet, Lucia (Contributor) ; Machado, Carlos (Contributor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Milton Taylor & Francis Group 2022
In:Year: 2022
Series/Journal:Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Further subjects:B Poverty-Rome-History
B Poverty-Greece-History
B Electronic books
B Poor-Greece-Social conditions
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Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: 9780367221140
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Summary:Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I Greece -- Chapter 2 Poverty, Wealth, and Social Mobility: The Cases of Megara and Athens -- Chapter 3 Processes of Impoverishment: Bau Z in the Kerameikos and Discourses About Poverty -- Chapter 4 Poverty and Honour in Classical Sparta -- Chapter 5 Greedy Gods and Hungry Humans: Sacrifice and the Poor in Classical and Hellenistic Greece -- Chapter 6 Poverty and Truth in Ancient Greek Philosophy -- Part II Rome -- Chapter 7 Impoverished Senatorial Women in Mid-Republican Rome: Opima Gloria and Felix Paupertas? -- Chapter 8 The Dynamics of Shame: Elite Poverty in Late Republican and Early Imperial Discourse -- Chapter 9 Cicero, the Poor, and Roman Rhetoric -- Chapter 10 Rich and Hungry, Poor and Full: Social and Cultural Food Poverty in the Roman World -- Part III Late Antiquity -- Chapter 11 Not All Poverty Is to Be Praised: Defining the Poor in a Christian Roman Empire -- Chapter 12 Looking for the Poor in Late Antique Rome -- Chapter 13 The "Poor" Facing Late Antique Justice: The Cases from the Papyri -- Chapter 14 Poverty, Charity, and the Social Strategies of "the Poor" in Late Antiquity: The View from North Africa in the Age of Augustine -- Index.
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ISBN:1000644995