When maritime transport and communication depended on muscle and wind-power, the Mediterranean Sea functioned as a symbiotic force between the civilisations which surrounded it, at once the major dividing barrier and the major connecting element. In this study, the technological…
Abstract: A definition of a Mediterranean diet as well as ancient history of this type of diet starts the book. Part II covers the basic foods of the Mediterranean region. Part III covers the medical and epidemiological aspects of the Mediterranean diets as they relate to the ma…
Marzano explores the exploitation of marine resources in the Roman world and its role within the economy. Bringing together literary, epigraphic, archaeological, and legal sources, she shows that these marine resources were an important feature of the Roman economy and parallele…
