ANCIENT HISTORY MAGAZINE # 43: From Feast to Famine

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Theme: Food Insecurity in Antiquity

Feasts, Famines, and Megadroughts - The Late Bronze Age Collapse
Agricultural Rituals in Ancient Egypt - Putting Osiris to Bed
Food Crises in the Roman World - A Starving Mob Has No Respect
Farmers and Land in the Late Republic - Agriculture in Crisis
Sparta, Syssitia, and Citizenship - Agriculture in Ancient Sparta

Features:

To Purify the Army by Means of a Dog - Canine Conciliation
Dentistry and Tooth Decay in Rome - Grin and Bear It
Religious Status in the Roman Empire - Christians to the Lions?
The Texts from Qumran and Their Significance - Sectarian Scrolls?
How Tough the Guts of Farming Folk - Garlic in Antiquity
Buddhist Regions of South-Central Asia - Where Olympus Meets Nirvana