Death on the Nile: Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt

Author:   Walter Scheidel
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   228
ISBN:  

9789004123236


Pages:   290
Publication Date:   19 September 2001
Format:   Hardback
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Death on the Nile: Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt


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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.

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Author:   Walter Scheidel
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   228
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.695kg
ISBN:  

9789004123236


ISBN 10:   9004123237
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   19 September 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Walter Scheidel teaches Ancient History at the University of Chicago. He has published widely on ancient social and economic history, including Measuring sex, age and death in the Roman empire (1996) and Debating Roman Demography (Brill, 2001).

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