Feeding the Democracy

• A challenging re-interpretation of the functioning of the ancient Athenian economy
• Brings in the widest possible evidence, including archaeology, aerial photography, and iconography
• Presents decades of untranslated Russian scholarship on the northern Black Sea

Readership: Scholars and students of classics, archaeology, anthropology (especially of the Aegean and Black Sea); of economic, social, and political history (especially of ancient Greece); of sociology.

Alfonso Moreno, Andrew and Randall Crawley Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Magdalen College, Oxford University

"insightful, densely argues and mostly well documented" - Vincent Gabrielsen, The Classical Review

"...the great merit of Moreno's reconstruction lies in the fact that it seeks to make proper sense of the enterprise that has been labelled the 'Athenian Empire': imperial expansion, food supply and economic development in both Athens and its possessions..." - Water Scheidel, Times Literary Supplement

I. Models and Calculations
1: From Uncertainty to Crisis
II. Archaeology
2: Euonymon
3: The Fruits of Empire
4: Ex Ponto
III. Literature
5: Bread and Politics
Conclusion