Famine and Food Supply in the Graeco-Roman World: Responses to Risk and Crisis

By Peter Garnsey

Book Overview

This is the first full-length treatment of food supply and food crisis in classical antiquity. Hunger was never far away in the world of Greece and Rome, yet ancient historians have generally left... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521351987
• ISBN13: 9780521351980
• Release Date: February 1988
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"