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Debating Roman demography /

Debating Roman demography / edited by Walter Scheidel. - 1 online resource (x, 242 pages) : illustrations. - Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 211 0169-8958 ; . - Mnemosyne, Supplements 211. Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-235) and index.

Preliminary Material -- PROGRESS AND PROBLEMS IN ROMAN DEMOGRAPHY / THE SEASONAL BIRTHING CYCLE OF ROMAN WOMEN / RECRUITMENT AND THE SIZE OF THE ROMAN POPULATION FROM THE THIRD TO THE FIRST CENTURY BCE / MORE IS WORSE: SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE POPULATION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE / URBAN POPULATION IN LATE ROMAN EGYPT AND THE END OF THE ANCIENT WORLD / BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE. Walter Scheidel -- Brent D. Shaw -- Elio Lo Cascio -- Bruce W. Frier -- Richard Alston --

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In conjection with an extensive critical survey of recent advances and controversies in Roman demography, the four case-studies in this volume illustrate a variety of different approaches to the study of ancient population history. The contributions address a number of crucial issues in Roman demography from the evolution of the academic field to seasonal patterns of fertility, the number of Roman citizens, population pressure in the early Roman empire, and the end of classical urbanism in late antiquity. This is the first collaborative volume of its kind. It is designed to introduce ancient historians and classicists to demographic, comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives, and to situate and contextualize Roman population studies in the wider ambit of historical demography.

9789004351097

10.1163/9789004351097 DOI

00051937


Demography--Rome.
Demography.
Population.


Rome--Population--History.
Rome (Empire)


History.

HB853.R66 / D43 2001

304.6/0945/632