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Poverty, Wealth, and Well-Being - Experiencing Penia in Democratic Athens (Hardcover)
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Poverty, Wealth, and Well-Being - Experiencing Penia in Democratic Athens (Hardcover)
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Poverty in fifth- and fourth-century BCE Athens was a markedly
different concept to that with which we are familiar today.
Reflecting contemporary ideas about labour, leisure, and good
citizenship, the 'poor' were considered to be not only those who
were destitute, or those who were living at the borders of
subsistence, but also those who were moderately well-off but had to
work for a living. Defined in this way, this group covered around
99 per cent of the population of Athens. This conception of penia
(poverty) was also ideologically charged: the poor were contrasted
with the rich and found, for the most part, to be both materially
and morally deficient. Poverty, Wealth, and Well-Being sets out to
rethink what it meant to be poor in a world where this was
understood as the need to work for a living, exploring the
discourses that constructed poverty as something to fear and
linking them with experiences of penia among different social
groups in Athens. Drawing on current research into and debates
around poverty within the social sciences, it provides a critical
reassessment of poverty in democratic Athens and argues that it
need not necessarily be seen in terms of these elitist ideological
categories, nor indeed solely as an economic condition (the state
of having no wealth), but that it should also be understood in
terms of social relations, capabilities, and well-being. In
developing a framework to analyse the complexities of poverty so
conceived and exploring the discourses that shaped it, the volume
reframes poverty as being dynamic and multidimensional, and
provides a valuable insight into what the poor in Athens - men and
women, citizen and non-citizen, slave and free - were able to do or
to be.
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