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Poverty in the Roman world /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Poverty in the Roman world // edited by Margaret Atkins and Robin Osborne.
other author:	Atkins, E. M.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Social problems - History. - Rome -
Subject:	Rome - Civilization -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511482700
ISBN:	9780511482700 (ebook)

Poverty in the Roman world /
Poverty in the Roman world /edited by Margaret Atkins and Robin Osborne. - 1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction : Roman poverty in context /Robin Osborne --

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 social and political life and how to treat the poor was a topic of philosophical as well as political discussion. This book explains what poverty meant in antiquity, and why the poor came to be an important group in the Roman world, and it explores the issues which poverty and the poor raised for Roman society and for Roman writers. In essays which range widely in space and time across the whole Roman Empire, the contributors address both the reality and the representation of poverty, and examine the impact which Christianity had upon attitudes towards and treatment of the poor.

ISBN: 9780511482700 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

799943
Social problems
--History.--RomeSubjects--Geographical Terms:

555298
Rome
--Civilization

LC Class. No.: HN10.R7 / P68 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 305.5/690937

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