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Poverty in the Roman World
ISBN: 9780521106573 | 0521106575
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 9/3/2009
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What is poverty? What is to be done about it? These are difficult questions in any period. This book looks at how Romans thought about the poor and about the appropriate ways to relieve poverty. It considers their political importance and how far the rise of Christianity affected their treatment.
If poor individuals have always been with us, societies have not always seen the poor as a distinct social group. But within the Roman world, from at least the Late Republic onwards, the poor were an important force in soc... MORE
If poor individuals have always been with us, societies have not always seen the poor as a distinct social group. But within the Roman world, from at least the Late Republic onwards, the poor were an important force in soc... MORE
| Introduction: Roman poverty in context | |
| The poor in the city of Rome | |
| Stratification, deprivation and quality of life | |
| 'You do him no service': an exploration of pagan almsgiving | |
| Writing poverty in Rome | |
| Population and poverty in Roman Egypt | |
| A pragmatic approach to poverty and riches: Ambrosiaster's Quaestio CXXIV | |
| Portraying the poor: descriptions of pove... MORE | |
| Throwing parties for the poor: poverty and splendour in the late antique Church | |
| Rhetoric and reality in Salvian of Marseille's portrayal of the poor | |
| Poverty and Roman law | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
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