The Demography of Roman Egypt (Paperback, Revised)

The traditional demographic regime of ancient Greece and Rome is almost entirely unknown; but our best chance for understanding its characteristics is provided by the three hundred census returns that survive on papyri from Roman Egypt. These returns, which date from the first three centuries AD, list the members of ordinary households living in the Nile valley: not only family members, but lodgers and slaves. The Demography of Roman Egypt has a complete and accurate catalogue of all demographically relevant information contained in the returns. On the basis of this catalogue, the authors use modern demographic methods and models to reconstruct the patterns of mortality, marriage, fertility and migration that are likely to have prevailed in Roman Egypt. They recreate a more or less typical Mediterranean population as it survived and prospered nearly two millennia ago.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time
Release date:	April 2006
First published:	1994
Authors:	Roger S. Bagnall • Bruce W. Frier
Foreword by:	Ansley J. Coale
Dimensions:	228 x 151 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	392
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-02596-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > General Books > History > African history > General Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
LSN:	0-521-02596-6
Barcode:	9780521025966

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