Poverty in Ancient Greece and Rome: Discourses and Realities

ISBN-13: 9780367221140 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 376 str.

Filippo Carlà-Uhink; Lucia Cecchet; Carlos Machado

Opis

Through a combination of archaeological, epigraphic, and literary evidence, this book offers a comprehensive overview of wealth and poverty in diverse contexts across the Graeco-Roman world. Suitable for students and scholars of ancient history, classical literature, and archaeology, as well as social scientists and social historians.

Recenzje

"This volume is highly recommended for its dynamic and engaging elucidation of the political, social and moral dimensions informed ancient conceptions of poverty and wealth, and of how these conceptions evolved. It also provides a compelling reminder to the modern researcher of the need to approach ancient societies on their own terms, as far as possible shedding our own culturally determined notions." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Spis treści

1. Introduction – Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Lucia Cecchet, and Carlos Machado, Part I: Greece, 2. Poverty, Wealth and Social Mobility: The cases of Megara and Athens – Lucia Cecchet, 3. Processes of Impoverishment: Bau Z in the Kerameikos and Discourses about Poverty – Claire Taylor, 4. Poverty and Honour in Classical Sparta – Gabriel C. Bernardo, 5. Greedy Gods and Hungry Humans: Sacrifice and the Poor in Classical and Hellenistic Greece – Irene Berti, 6. Poverty and Truth in Ancient Greek Philosophy – Étienne Helmer, Part II: Rome, 7. Impoverished Senatorial Women in Mid-Republican Rome: Opima gloria and felix paupertas? – Lewis Webb, 8. The Dynamics of Shame: Elite Poverty in Late Republican and Early Imperial Discourse – Christian Rollinger, 9. Cicero, the Poor, and Roman Rhetoric – Filippo Carlà-Uhink, 10. Rich and Hungry, Poor and Full: Social and Cultural Food Poverty in the Roman World – Erica Rowan, Part III: Late Antiquity, 11. ‘Not all Poverty is to be Praised’: Defining the Poor in a Christian Roman Empire – Daniel Caner, 12. Looking for the Poor in Late Antique Rome – Carlos Machado, 13. The Poor Facing Late Antique Justice: the Cases from Papyri – Christel Freu, 14. Poverty, Charity and the Social Strategies of the "Poor" in Late Antiquity: the View from North Africa in the Age of Augustine – Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira.