Feeding the Democracy
The Athenian Grain Supply in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC
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Publisher Description
Alfonso Moreno presents a sweeping 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 globalized as our own.