Title Poverty in the Roman world / edited by Margaret Atkins and Robin Osborne.

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages)
	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : Roman poverty in context / Robin Osborne -- Poor in the city of Rome / Neville Morley -- Stratification, deprivation and quality of life / Walter Scheidel -- "You do him no service" : an exploration of pagan almsgiving / Anneliese Parkin -- Writing poverty in Rome / Greg Woolf -- Poverty and population in Roman Egypt / Dominic Rathbone -- A pragmatic approach to poverty and riches : Ambrosiaster's quaestio 124 / Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe -- Portraying the poor : descriptions of poverty in Christian texts from the late Roman empire / Richard Finn -- Throwing parties for the poor : poverty and splendour in the late antique church / Lucy Grig -- Salvian, the ideal Christian community and the fate of the poor in fifth-century Gaul / Cam Grey -- Poverty and Roman law / Caroline Humfress.
Summary	What is poverty? What is to be done about it? These are difficult questions in any period. This book looks at how Romans thought about the poor and about the appropriate ways to relieve poverty. It considers their political importance and how far the rise of Christianity affected their treatment.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Social problems -- Rome -- History.
	Poverty -- Rome -- History.
	Poverty -- Political aspects -- Rome.
	Poverty -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Rome.
	Poor -- Rome -- Social conditions.
	Rome -- Social conditions.
	Rome (Empire)
	Social conditions.
	Rome -- Economic conditions.
	Economic conditions.
Indexed Term	Roman world
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Conference papers and proceedings.
	Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author	Atkins, E. M. (E. Margaret)
	Osborne, Robin, 1957-
Other Form:	Print version: Poverty in the Roman world. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006 (DLC) 2006299847
ISBN	0511246285 (electronic book)
	9780511246289 (electronic book)
	9780511246951 (electronic book)
	0511246951 (electronic book)
	0511245556
	9780511245558
	9780511482700 (ebook)
	0511482701 (ebook)
	0521862116 (Cloth)
	0511244800
	9780521862110 (hardback)

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