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

This study shows how Classical Athens, the largest and historically most important of the Greek city‐states, depended for its survival on a supply of grain from overseas sources, especially (in the fifth century bc) the conquered territories of its Aegean empire, and (in the fourth century) the dist...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Moreno, Alfonso, 1972-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:	Oxford classical monographs.
Subjects:	Grain trade > Greece > Athens > History > To 1500. Athens (Greece) > Economic conditions. HISTORY > Ancient. Economic history Grain trade Greece > Athens Voedselvoorziening. Graan. Athene. Spannmålshandel > historia > Grekland > Athen > antiken. Athen > ekonomiska förhållanden > antiken. To 1500 Trade. Import. Rhetoric. Ideology. Politics. Bread. Literature. Empire. Economy. Agriculture. Archaeology. Production. Uncertainty. Crisis. Calculations. Models. Supply. Grain. Ancient Greek democracy. Feeding. Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

pt. 1. Models and calculations
1. From crisis to uncertainty : calculating Athenian grain production
I. The land
II. Use of the land
III. Crop yields
IV. Population
V. Consumption
VI. Conclusion
pt. II. Archaeology
2. Euonymon : the agriculture and economy of the classical Athenian Deme
I. Euonymon : general overview
II. Regional landscape
III. Intensive versus subsistence agriculture
IV. The economy of Euonymon
V. Attica and the Athenian market
VI. Conclusion
3. The fruits of empire
I. Athens and Euboea
II. The big picture : Euboean agriculture, geography, and history
III. Patterns of Athenian land-holding and the Athenian Cleruchies on Euboea
IV. Forts and the imperial territory
V. Conclusion
4. Ex Ponto : the Athenian grain supply and Black Sea archaeology
I. Northern Black Sea aristocracies : sixth and fifth centuries BC, to 438
II. The royal economy : from 438 to the end of the fourth century BC
III. Conclusion
pt. III. Literature
5. Bread and politics : the ideology of the grain supply in Athenian rhetoric
I. The dealers
II. Grain-Importers : Emporoi and Naukleroi
III. "Outside" Athenian politics? The evidence from commercial suits (Dikai Emporikai)
IV. Conclusion
Appendix 1. Relevant measures
Appendix 2. Land-leases
Appendix 3. Athenian law taxing lemnos, imbros and scyros, 374/3 BC (GHI II 26)
Appendix 4. The regulation of the grain market
Appendix 5. Gazetteer of grain sources.