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Feeding the Democracy - The Athenian Grain Supply in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC (Hardcover)
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Feeding the Democracy - The Athenian Grain Supply in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
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The reliance of democracies on vital supplies of energy from
distant and non-democratic sources is probably the most pressing
and dangerous problem of modern times, but it is not a new
phenomenon. Classical Athens, the birthplace of democracy and the
largest and historically most important of the ancient Greek
city-states, depended for its survival on the constant importation
of grain from overseas lands as remote as Ukraine and southern
Russia, and this trade was ultimately controlled by powerful
politicians, wealthy landowners, and kings. Alfonso Moreno examines
how this resource need determined Athenian foreign policy,
prompting recourse to military conquest and ruthless resettlements,
and how uncomfortable realities (especially elite control) were
made acceptable to popular audiences.This study of ancient trade
and politics reveals a Greek world as globalized as our own, and
convulsed by the same problems that such interdependence and
sophistication entail.
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