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Poverty in Ancient Greece and Rome: Realities and Discourses

Poverty in Ancient Greece and Rome: Realities and Discourses

Carlà-Uhink, Filippo
Cecchet, Lucia
Machado, Carlos

Paperback

Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

EconomicsAncient GreeceAncient Rome

ISBN10: 103233004X
ISBN13: 9781032330044
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 27 2024
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This volume presents an innovative picture of the ancient Mediterranean world. Approaching poverty as a multifaceted condition, it examines how different groups were affected by the lack of access to symbolic, cultural and social - as well as economic - capital.

Collecting a wide range of studies by an international team of experts, it presents a diverse and complex analysis of life in antiquity, from the archaic to the late antique period. The sections on Greece, Rome, and Late Antiquity offer in-depth studies of ancient life, integrating analysis of socio-economic dynamics and cultural and discursive strategies that shaped this crucial element of ancient (and modern) societies. Themes like social cohesion and control, exclusion, gender, agency, and identity are explored through the combination of archaeological, epigraphic, and literary evidence, presenting a rich panorama of Greco-Roman societies and a stimulating collection of new approaches and methodologies for their understanding. The book offers a comprehensive view of the ancient world, analysing different social groups - from wealthy elites to poor peasants and the destitute - and their interactions, in contexts as diverse as Classical Athens and Sparta, imperial Rome, and the late antique towns of Egypt and North Africa.

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