Feeding the Democracy - Moreno, Alfonso (Andrew and Randall Crawley Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Magdalen College, Oxford University)

Alfonso Moreno presents a sweeping re-interpretation of the economy and society of ancient Athens, showing how the city depended for its survival on a supply of grain from overseas sources. The need for grain determined Athenian foreign policy, prompting military conquest, and revealing a Greek world as globalized as our own.