Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : Roman poverty in context / Robin Osborne -- The poor in the city of Rome / Neville Morley -- Stratification, deprivation and quality of life / Walter Scheidel -- "You do him no service" : an exploration of pagan almsgiving / Anneliese Parkin -- Writing poverty in Rome / Greg Woolf -- Poverty and population in Roman Egypt / Dominic Rathbone -- A pragmatic approach to poverty and riches : Ambrosiaster's quaestio 124 / Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe -- Portraying the poor : descriptions of poverty in Christian texts from the late Roman empire / Richard Finn -- Throwing parties for the poor : poverty and splendour in the late antique church / Lucy Grig -- Salvian, the ideal Christian community and the fate of the poor in fifth-century Gaul / Cam Grey -- Poverty and Roman law / Caroline Humfress…”