Provisioning Rome with Grain - But the Workers must eat, Too!

Provisioning Rome with Grain – But the Workers must eat, Too!

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Rachel Laudan has put up a most interesting blog on food production and distribution in ancient times, focusing on the problems of provisioning Rome; she says >

Provisioning Rome, one of the world’s largest cities, if not the largest with as many as a million people by about 55 B.C., was one of the greatest challenges of the Ancient World.

Bread was the basis of the diet, supplying most of the…

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