Roman Frugality

Ingo Gildenhard is Reader in Classics and the Classical Tradition at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of King's College. His publications include Paideia Romana (2007) and Creative Eloquence (2011) and, with M. Silk and R. Barrow, The Classical Tradition (2013). Cristiano Viglietti is Associate Professor of Roman History at the University of Siena. He is the author of Il limite del bisogno. Antropologia economica di Roma arcaica (2011).

• 1. 'Frugality', economy and society in archaic Rome (late seventh to early fourth century BCE) Cristiano Viglietti; 2. From Licinius Stolo to Tiberius Gracchus: Roman frugality and the limitation of landholding John Rich; 3. Frugality as a political language in the second century BCE: the strategies of Cato the Elder and Scipio Aemilianus Laure Passet; 4. Smallholding, frugality and market economy in the Gracchan age Mattia Balbo; 5:. Frugalitas, or: the invention of a Roman virtue Ingo Gildenhard; 6. Frugality, building, and heirlooms in an age of social mobility John R. Patterson; 7. From poverty to prosperity: the recalibration of frugality Christopher J. Berry.

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