Roman Frugality Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond [#459199]

Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (Cambridge Classical Studies) edited by Ingo Gildenhard, Cristiano Viglietti
English | August 13, 2020 | ISBN: 1108840167 | True PDF | 428 pages | 4.7 MB
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.