This study, unique of its kind, asks how slavery was viewed by the leading spokesmen of Greece an...

The economics of imperialism, its political background and institutional frameworks, the material...

This is the first study of food in classical antiquity that treats it as both a biological and a ...

This is the first full-length treatment of food supply and food crisis in classical antiquity. Hu...

Sixteen essays in the social and economic history of the ancient world, by a leading historian of...

During the first, stable period of the Principate (roughly from 27 BC to AD 235), when the empire...

This book explores ancient 'foundational' texts relating to property and their reception by later...

The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty-here for the first time in EnglishIn 1...

This book explores ancient 'foundational' texts relating to property and their reception by later...

Sixteen essays in the social and economic history of the ancient world, by a leading historian of...

The first full-length study of famine in antiquity. The study provides detailed case studies of A...

This is a broad-based, comprehensive general study of food in antiquity. The book deals with food...