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The Demography of Roman Egypt

By Roger S. Bagnall , Bruce W. Frier , Ansley J. Coale

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1994
ISBN
9780511584053, 0521461235, 0521025966, 0511584059, 9780521025966, 9780521461238
LCC
HB3661.7.A3 B33 1994
Open Library ID
OL1422147M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9161673 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time
Pages
390\390
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

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.

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