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