Poverty, Vulnerability and Family in the Ancient World

Dr Aida Fernández Prieto, sponsored and supported by Dr April Pudsey

The project reconstructs personal experiences of poverty and socio-economic vulnerability at the family level in the ancient Greek world. It focuses particularly on women and girls in classical and post-classical Athens (5th-3rd century BCE).

The research aims to provide the first systematic, contextualised and holistic view of the structural, demographic and cultural nature of these interrelated phenomena in classical antiquity. It will also examine their impact on the experiences of women and girls of that time.

2023 will see an international conference hosted by MCYS and the History Research Centre at ManMet.

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