Poverty in the Roman World

by E.M. Atkins and Robin Osborne

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521106575
• ISBN13: 9780521106573
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"