Table of Contents: Poverty in the Roman world/

Main Author:	Atkins, E. M.
Other Authors:	Osborne, Robin,
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006
Subjects:	Social problems > History > Rome Poverty > History > Rome Poverty > Political aspects > Rome Poverty > Moral and ethical aspects > Rome Poor > Social conditions > Rome Rome > Social conditions Rome > Economic conditions

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: Roman poverty in context /Robin Osborne; 2. The poor in the city of Rome /Neville Morley; 3. Stratification, deprivation and quality of life /Walter Scheidel; 4. ʹYou do him no serviceʹ: an exploration of pagan almsgiving /Anneliese Parkin; 5. Writing poverty in Rome /Greg Woolf; 6. Population and poverty in Roman Egypt /Dominic Rathbone; 7. A pragmatic approach to poverty and riches: Ambrosiasterʹs Quaestio 124 /Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe; 8. Portraying the poor: descriptions of poverty in Christian texts from the Late Roman Empire /Richard Finn; 9. Throwing parties for the poor: poverty and splendour in the late antique Church /Lucy Grig; 10. Salvian, the ideal Christian community and the fate of the poor in fifth-century Gaul /Cam Grey; 11. Poverty and Roman law / Caroline Humfress.