Death on the Nile : disease and the demography of Roman Egypt / by Walter Scheidel.

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Scheidel, Walter, 1966-

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TextSeries: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; ; 228.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (xxx, 286 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9004350942
9789004350946

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Death on the Nile.DDC classification:

614.4/232 21

LOC classification:

R653.E4 S36 2001

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WA 900 HE3

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74.95

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Summary: A pioneering comparative and multidisciplinary study of the interaction between local disease environments and demographic structure, this book breaks new ground in reconstructing the population history of Egypt during the Roman period and beyond. Drawing on a wide range of sources from ancient census data and funerary commemorations to modern medical accounts, statistics and demographic models, the author explores the nature of premodern disease patterns, challenges existing assumptions about ancient age structure, and develops a new methodology for the assessment of Egyptian poplation size. Contextualising the study of Roman Egypt within the broader framework of premodern demography, ecology and medical history, this is the first attempt to interpret and explain demographic conditions in antiquity in terms of the underlying causes of disease and death.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-286) and index.

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A pioneering comparative and multidisciplinary study of the interaction between local disease environments and demographic structure, this book breaks new ground in reconstructing the population history of Egypt during the Roman period and beyond. Drawing on a wide range of sources from ancient census data and funerary commemorations to modern medical accounts, statistics and demographic models, the author explores the nature of premodern disease patterns, challenges existing assumptions about ancient age structure, and develops a new methodology for the assessment of Egyptian poplation size. Contextualising the study of Roman Egypt within the broader framework of premodern demography, ecology and medical history, this is the first attempt to interpret and explain demographic conditions in antiquity in terms of the underlying causes of disease and death.

Preliminary Material -- MORTALITY PATTERNS AND CAUSES OF DEATH -- AGE STRUCTURE AND LIFE EXPECTANCY -- POPULATION SIZE AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE -- MONTHS OF DEATH IN EPITAPHS FROM ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL EGYPT AND NUBIA -- PERSONS WITH EXACT AGES IN THE CENSUS RETURNS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE by H. Pinkster , H.S. Versnel , D.M. Schenkeveld , P.H. Schrijvers and S.R. Slings.

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