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Food relief --- Food supply --- Grain trade --- Poor --- Congresses --- Nutrition --- Rome --- Economic conditions --- Conditions économiques --- Congrès --- Conditions économiques --- Congrès --- Congresses. --- Food relief - Rome - Congresses. --- Food supply - Rome - Congresses. --- Grain trade - Rome - Congresses. --- Poor - Nutrition - Rome - Congresses.

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In a pre-industrial world, storage could make or break farmers and empires alike. How did it shape the Roman empire? The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage cuts across the scales of farmer and state to trace the practical and moral reverberations of storage from villas in Italy to silos in Gaul, and from houses in Pompeii to warehouses in Ostia. Following on from the material turn, an abstract notion of 'surplus' makes way for an emphasis on storage's material transformations (e.g. wine fermenting; grain degrading; assemblages forming), which actively shuffle social relations and economic possibilities, and are a sensitive indicator of changing mentalities. This archaeological study tackles key topics, including the moral resonance of agricultural storage; storage as both a shared and a contested concern during and after conquest; the geography of knowledge in domestic settings; the supply of the metropolis of Rome; and the question of how empires scale up. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Roman archaeology and history, as well as anthropologists who study the links between the scales of farmer and state.

Agriculture --- Food supply --- Food --- Storage facilities --- Rome --- History. --- History --- Storage --- Antiquities. --- Food-supply --- Antiquities --- E-books --- Safety measures. --- Storage facilities - Rome - History --- Food - Storage - Rome - History --- Food-supply - Rome - History --- Agriculture - Rome - History --- Rome - Antiquities --- Rome - History - Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.

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This is the first study of food in classical antiquity that treats it as both a biological and a cultural phenomenon. The variables of food quantity, quality and availability, and the impact of disease, are evaluated and a judgement reached which inclines to pessimism. Food is also a symbol, evoking other basic human needs and desires, especially sex, and performing social and cultural roles which can be either integrative or divisive. The book explores food taboos in Greek, Roman, and Jewish society, and food-allocation within the family, as well as more familiar cultural and economic polarities which are highlighted by food and eating. The author draws on a wide range of evidence new and old, from written sources to human skeletal remains, and uses both comparative historical evidence from early modern and contemporary developing societies and the anthropological literature, to create a case-study of food in antiquity.

Civilization, Classical --- Food habits --- Food supply --- 394.12093 --- Food control --- Produce trade --- Agriculture --- Food security --- Single cell proteins --- Eating --- Food customs --- Foodways --- Human beings --- Habit --- Manners and customs --- Diet --- Nutrition --- Oral habits --- Classical civilization --- Civilization, Ancient --- Classicism --- History --- Social sciences Food Ancient World --- Arts and Humanities --- Civilization, Classical. --- Habitudes alimentaires --- Aliments --- Civilisation ancienne --- History. --- Histoire --- Approvisionnement --- Greece --- Rome --- Civilization [Classical ] --- Food habits - Greece - History - To 1500 --- Food habits - Rome --- Food supply - Greece - History - To 1500 --- Food supply - Rome