Feeding the Democracy

Alfonso (Andrew and Randall Crawley Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Magdalen College, Oxford University) Moreno

Oxford University Press, 2007

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Alfonso Moreno presents a sweeping re-interpretation of the economy and society of ancient Athens, showing how the city depended for its survival on a supply of grain from overseas sources. The need for grain determined Athenian foreign policy, prompting military conquest, and revealing a Greek world as globalized as our own.

ISBN-13
9780199228409
ISBN-10
019922840X
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2007
Publication date
2007-10-25
Pages
440
Dimensions
223x145x29
Weight
665