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Introduction : Roman poverty in context /Robin Osborne --The poor in the city of Rome /Neville Morley --Stratification, deprivation and quality of life /Walter Scheidel --"You do him no service" : an exploration of pagan almsgiving /Anneliese Parkin --Writing poverty in Rome /Greg Woolf --Poverty and population in Roman Egypt /Dominic Rathbone --A pragmatic approach to poverty and riches : Ambrosiaster's quaestio 124 /Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe --Portraying the poor : descriptions of poverty in Christian texts from the late Roman empire /Richard Finn --Throwing parties for the poor : poverty and splendour in the late antique church /Lucy Grig --Salvian, the ideal Christian community and the fate of the poor in fifth-century Gaul /Cam Grey --Poverty and Roman law /Caroline Humfress.

We tend to think of numbers as inherently objective and precise. Yet the diverse ways in which ancient Greeks used numbers illustrates that counting is actually shaped by context-specific and culturally-dependent choices: what should be counted and how, who should count, and how should the results be shared? This volume is the first to focus on the generation and use of numbers in the polis to quantify, communicate and persuade. Its papers demonstrate the rich insights that can be gained into ancient Greek societies by reappraising seemingly straightforward examples of quantification as reflections of daily life and cultural understandings

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Imaginary Kings: Alternatives to Monarchy in Early Greece -- Form and Content: The Question of Tyranny in Herodotus -- Stick and Glue: The Function of Tyranny in Fifth-Century Athenian Democracy -- Tragic Tyranny -- Dēmos Tyrannos: Wealth, Power, and Economic Patronage -- Demos, Demagogue, Tyrant in Attic Old Comedy -- The Tyranny of the Audience in Plato and Isocrates -- Tyrant Killing as Therapeutic Stasis: A Political Debate in Images and Texts -- Changing the Discourse -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- General Index -- Index Locorum

Introducing students to current controversies over the nature of the ancient economy, this volume brings together twelve influential studies by leading experts in the field. In 1973, Moses Finley unveiled a comprehensive model of the economic underpinnings of classical civilisation. Since then, supporters and critics have turned the study of the ancient economy into what has been called 'an academic battleground'. In recent years, however, a growing number of scholars have aimed to move the debate beyond partisan controversies. This volume takes stock of these developments. Embracing a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives derived from ecology, economics and cultural studies and drawing on literary, documentary and archaeological evidence, the contributions address crucial issues from agricultural production, the uses of money and the creation of markets to the scale of long-distance trade and economic growth in the Greek and Roman periods. In a general introduction and separate headnotes for each chapter, the editors provide a concise survey of recent debates, seeking to situate the different contributions in the broader context of contemporary scholarship. This is the first collection of its kind. It is designed to acquaint beginners as well as more advanced students with a variety of thematic and methodological approaches to the study of economic processes in the ancient world. All terms in foreign or ancient languages have been translated into English or explained in a comprehensive glossary. An up-to-date bibliographical essay covering pertinent scholarship in English offers guidance for further reading and the preparation of term papers

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note to the Reader -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- General Introduction -- PART I Political Institutions -- Introduction to Part I -- 1 Athenian Citizenship: The Descent Group and the Alternatives -- 2 How Did the Athenian Ecclesia Vote? -- 3 Aristotle, the Kleroteria, and the Courts -- 4 Jury Pay and Assembly Pay at Athens -- 5 Capital Punishment -- PART II Political Activity -- Introduction to Part II -- 6 Athenian Demagogues -- 7 Political Activity in Classical Athens -- 8 Competitive Festivals and the Polis: A Context for Dramatic Festivals at Athens -- 9 Public and Private Interests in Classical Athens -- PART III Moments in History -- Introduction to Part III -- 10 How a Political Myth Takes Shape: Solon, 'Founding Father' of the Athenian Democracy -- 11 The Athenian Revolution of 508/7 B.C.: Violence, Authority, and the Origins of Democracy -- 12 Cleisthenes and Attica -- 13 Ephialtes, Eisangelia, and the Council -- PART IV A View of Democracy -- Introduction to Part IV -- 14 The Greeks: The Political Revolution in World History -- Intellectual Chronology -- Guide to Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Index