I CEREALI NELLâ€™ANTICA GRECIA E Lâ€™APPROVVIGIONAMENTO GRANARIO DELLâ€™ATENE CLASSICA
Journal: Istituto Lombardo - Accademia di Scienze e Lettere - Incontri di Studio
Year: 2016

Cereals, chiefly barley, covered roughly three-quarters of the food requirements of ancient Greeks. The agrarian practices were modelled on this basic need. However, although recent studies have stressed their efforts to maximize production, climatic conditions and the scarcity of animal manure doomed the ancient Greek world to a low productivity. So the more populous poleis had to import large quantities of grain. This was the case of classical Athens, which particularly after the loss of empir