Toner Jerry (Churchill College Cambridge)
Toner Jerry (Churchill College Cambridge) - Risk In The Roman World - Paperback
Toner Jerry (Churchill College Cambridge) - Risk In The Roman World - Paperback
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Description: How did the Romans handle risk from uncertainty about food supply and dangerous travel to survival itself? Modern risk studies view the ancients as dominated by fate but the reality was different. A range of techniques from dream interpretation and oracles to logistics and law all served to control risk.
Title: Risk In The Roman World
Author(s): Toner Jerry (Churchill College Cambridge)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9781108723213
Pages: 160 Pages, Worked Examples Or Exercises
Publication Date: 11/30/2023
Series: Key Themes in Ancient History
Category: Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography
Description: How did the Romans handle risk from uncertainty about food supply and dangerous travel to survival itself? Modern risk studies view the ancients as dominated by fate but the reality was different. A range of techniques from dream interpretation and oracles to logistics and law all served to control risk.
Title: Risk In The Roman World
Author(s): Toner Jerry (Churchill College Cambridge)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9781108723213
Pages: 160 Pages, Worked Examples Or Exercises
Publication Date: 11/30/2023
Series: Key Themes in Ancient History
Category: Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography
