Debating Roman Demography [electronic resource].

By:

Scheidel, Walter

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Mnemosyne, Supplements SerPublication details: Leiden : BRILL, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (254 p.)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789004351097
9004351094

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Debating Roman DemographyDDC classification:

304.6/0945/632

LOC classification:

HB853.R66D43 2001

Other classification:

15.52
74.83
6,11
6,12
FB 4082
NH 7025

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Contents:

Progress and problems in Roman demography / Walter Scheidel -- The seasonal birthing cycle of Roman women / Brent D. Shaw -- Recruitment and the size of the Roman population from the third to the first century BCE / Elio Lo Cascio -- More is worse: some observations on the population of the Roman empire / Bruce W. Frier -- Urban population in Late Roman Egypt and the end of the ancient world / Richard Alston.

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Review: "In conjunction 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."--Jacket.

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

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"In conjunction 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."--Jacket.

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