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Roman Frugality offers the first-ever systematic analysis of the
variants of individual and collective self-restraint that shaped
ancient Rome throughout its history and had significant
repercussions in post-classical times. In particular, it tries to
do the complexity of a phenomenon justice that is situated at the
interface of ethics and economics, self and society, the real and
the imaginary, and touches upon thrift and sobriety in the material
sphere, but also modes of moderation more generally, not least in
the spheres of food and drink, sex and power. Adopting an
interdisciplinary approach drawing on ancient history, philology,
archaeology and the history of thought, the volume traces the role
of frugal thought and practice within the evolving political
culture and political economy of ancient Rome from the archaic age
to the imperial period and concludes with a chapter that explores
the reception of ancient ideas of self-restraint in early modern
times.
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