Introduction. Frugality in theory and history

TL;DR: The influence of Greek culture on the Roman concept and the peculiar characteristics of Roman luxuria is discussed in this article . But the focus of this vice shifts from the economic sphere, and the idea of the waste of money, to the erotic one, and in the Christian world luxuria becomes one of the Seven Capital Sins, representing the vice of lust.

TL;DR: Cato's self-representation and self-commemoration in the Origines are shaped by his insertion of his own speeches and the competitive social and political arena he entered at Rome.

TL;DR: The authors provides a history of the term and concept of luxuria from the origin of Latin literature (Cato the Elder) to the late first century ce (Pliny the Elder, Quintilian), with a specific section on sumptuary laws.

TL;DR: Based on exclusive access to the largest ever survey of poverty in the UK, and its predecessor surveys in the 1980s and 1990s, Stewart Lansley and Joanna Mack track changes in deprivation and paint a devastating picture of the reality of poverty today and its causes as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The authors presented a selection of seven of Foucault's most important published essays, translated from the French, with an introductory essay and notes by Donald F. Bouchard, with a summary of a course given by Foucaine at College de France.

TL;DR: A collection of essays examines various aspects of the Roman Republic and its constituent groups of citizens, and discusses the nature and significance of the revolution that converted it into a monarchy as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity is presented in this paper, with twenty-eight chapters summarising the current state of research in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research.