The Corn Supply of Ancient Rome. - RICKMAN, G.,
KORTE INHOUD
?The student of ancient history has much to be gratify for, but notoriously there are wide areas on his maps which have to be left blank or filled in only in sketchy outline. Economic and administrative details far too often elude his eye. (?) The difficulties and expense of overland transport and the falling away of local sources of cereals for the growing capital of a world empire forced Roman eyes to turn to Sicily and Sardinia, Spain, Africa, and Egypt to uncover major and reliable sources of supply. Which all sounds straightforward enough, until we remember the enormity of the task involved: the sheer cost of it all, the checking of quantities and qualities of cargoes on embarkation and disembarkation, the trickiness of carrying and storing a very heavy and unstable bulk commodity vulnerable to pests and rot and double-germination, and only too commonly until Augustus created a standing Roman navy the ravages of pirates who not long before Pompeu?s command of 67 B.C. could even sail coolly into the mouth...
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Oxford, 1996. XIII,290p. Hard bound with dust wrps. (Sandpiper edition). Nice copy. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: RICKMAN, G.,] [Uitgever: Clarendon Press] [Jaar: 1996] [Titel: The Corn Supply of Ancient Rome.]
