Roman Frugality
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Roman Frugality

Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond

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eBook - PDF

Roman Frugality

Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781108840163
eBook ISBN
9781108888189
Topic
History
Subtopic
Ancient History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Contributors
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Note on Translations
  11. List of Abbreviations
  12. Introduction: Frugality in Theory and History
  13. Chapter 1 'Frugality', Economy and Society in Archaic Rome (Late Seventh to Early Fourth Century BCE)
  14. Chapter 2 From Licinius Stolo to Tiberius Gracchus: Roman Frugality and the Limitation of Landholding
  15. Chapter 3 Frugality as a Political Language in the Second Century BCE: The Strategies of Cato the Elder and Scipio Aemilianus
  16. Chapter 4 Smallholding, Frugality and Market Economy in the Gracchan age
  17. Chapter 5 Frugalitas, or: The Invention of a Roman Virtue
  18. Chapter 6 Frugality, Building, and Heirlooms in an Age of Social Mobility
  19. Chapter 7 From Poverty to Prosperity: The Recalibration of Frugality
  20. Index Locorum
  21. General Index