Poverty in the Roman World Hardback - Hardcover

Atkins; Osborne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521862116 ISBN 13: 9780521862110

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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'It is the emphasis on the political power of the poor in Rome emerging from this work that might, perhaps, offer encouragement to impoverished readers today.' Classical Ireland

Biografía del autor:

Margaret Atkins is a Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. She was previously Senior Lecturer in Theology at Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds. She has published with Cambridge University Press translations of Cicero's De Officiis, Augustine's political writings and Aquinas' Disputed Questions on the Virtues. Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College. His numerous publications include Greece in the Making (1996), Archaic and Classical Greek Art (1998), Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy (1999, edited with Simon Goldhill) and Greek Historical Inscriptions from the End of the Peloponnesian War to the Death of Alexander (2003, edited with P. J. Rhodes).

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521862116
• ISBN 13: 9780521862110
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 244