| Description |
1 online resource (316 p.) |
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Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies |
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Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I Greece -- Chapter 2 Poverty, Wealth, and Social Mobility: The Cases of Megara and Athens -- Chapter 3 Processes of Impoverishment: Bau Z in the Kerameikos and Discourses About Poverty -- Chapter 4 Poverty and Honour in Classical Sparta -- Chapter 5 Greedy Gods and Hungry Humans: Sacrifice and the Poor in Classical and Hellenistic Greece -- Chapter 6 Poverty and Truth in Ancient Greek Philosophy -- Part II Rome |
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Chapter 7 Impoverished Senatorial Women in Mid-Republican Rome: Opima Gloria and Felix Paupertas? -- Chapter 8 The Dynamics of Shame: Elite Poverty in Late Republican and Early Imperial Discourse -- Chapter 9 Cicero, the Poor, and Roman Rhetoric -- Chapter 10 Rich and Hungry, Poor and Full: Social and Cultural Food Poverty in the Roman World -- Part III Late Antiquity -- Chapter 11 Not All Poverty Is to Be Praised: Defining the Poor in a Christian Roman Empire -- Chapter 12 Looking for the Poor in Late Antique Rome -- Chapter 13 The "Poor" Facing Late Antique Justice: The Cases from the Papyri |
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Chapter 14 Poverty, Charity, and the Social Strategies of "the Poor" in Late Antiquity: The View from North Africa in the Age of Augustine -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Poverty -- Greece -- History
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Poverty -- Rome -- History
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Poor -- Greece -- Social conditions
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cecchet, Lucia
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Machado, Carlos
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| ISBN |
9781000644999 |
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1000644995 |
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