Wheat Production and its Social Consequences in the Roman World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9667255 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John K Evans (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 428-442 |
| Publication date | 1981-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Classical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-8388 • E-ISSN: 1471-6844 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0009838800009769 |
| OpenAlex | W2126536630 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 61 |
| References cited | 14 |
In every generation the overwhelming majority of those who inhabited the imperium Romanum worked on the land and derived their sustenance directly from it. The notion is commonplace and scarcely admits of debate, but its implications for long have suffered unwarranted neglect. The well-being of any society ultimately rests upon the quantity and diversity of its food supplies, but the immediacy of their contact with the soil continually reminded the Roman people of this platitude with a force which few students of their history today can readily appreciate. The annual yield of wheat in particular, always a staple item in the Roman diet, and to a lesser extent of such cereals as panic and millet, acutely affected every segment of the Roman community. One example will serve to illustrate the point. The dependence of the plebs urbana upon imported surpluses is notorious, equally the intense suffering and violence which typically accompanied any disruption of their supply. Such outbreaks frequently punctuated the chaotic final decades of the Republic, but they also scarred more than one régime during the first two centuries of the Principate
Calais · Civilization · Diversity (politics · Economics · Epistemology · Immediacy · Neglect · Political economy · Political science · Production (economics · Sociology · Sustenance · Yield (engineering · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Architectural Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Water management and technologies
Nos natura non sustinet
Wheat
Local and provincial institutions and government
Commerce and finance
The growth of administrative posts
Africa
Political history, 146–95 b.c.
The emperor and his advisers
The army
Religion
Religion
The Danube provinces
The development of Roman private law
Egypt, 146–31 b.c.
Economy and society, 133–43 b.c.
The Roman empire and its problems in the late second century
The Senate and the populares , 69–60 b.c.
Cyrenaica
Hadrian to the Antonines
Roman Germany
Nerva to Hadrian
Family and household
The aftermath of the Ides
Britain
Lucullus, Pompey and the East
The city of Rome and the plebs urbana in the late Republic
The fall of the Roman Republic
Emperor, Senate and magistrates
The rise of Pompey
Provincial administration and finance
Greece and Asia Minor
The Flavians
Rome and Italy
Trade
Frontiers
Caesar, Pompey and Rome, 59–50 b.c.
Status and patronage
The crisis of the Republic
Art and architecture
Rebels and outsiders
The intellectual developments of the Ciceronian age
The administration of the empire
Sulla
The land
Literacy
Rome and Italy
Demography
Literature and sophistic
Modelling Roman Demography and Urban Dependency in Central Italy
Chleb nieodpowiedni dla chrześcijan
The Cambridge Ancient History
The Cambridge Ancient History
The Grain Market in the Roman Empire
Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run - Second Edition, Revised and Updated
Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run
Agriculture, underemployment, and the cost of rural labour in the Roman world
Food stocks and grain reserves
L'économie chinoise
L'économie chinoise
First Theory of Credit and its Institutions
The Impact of Globalization in the Roman Empire, 200 bc — ad 100
English Villagers of the Thirteenth Century
La Table des Ligures Baebiani et l'institution alimentaire de Trajan (2e article)
Family Structure and Economic Change in Nineteenth-Century Europe
La table des Ligures Baebiani et l'institution alimentaire de Trajan
The Last Generation of the Roman Republic
Wheat-Farming in Roman Times
Heavy Transport in Classical Antiquity
Terres et familles dans un village du Châtillonnais
Célibat et condition paysanne
Chayanov's model of peasant household resource allocation
Contraception in the Roman Empire
| Unique citing works | 61 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.91 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2020 (27) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 60 |