Feeding the democracy the Athenian grain supply in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.

Alfonso Moreno presents a 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 glob...

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Main Author: Moreno, Alfonso
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2007, c2007
Series:Oxford classical monographs / Oxford classical monographs
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