Death On The Nile: Disease And The Demography Of Roman Egypt (mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum) (mnemosyne, Supplements / Mnemosyne, Supplements, History And)

A pioneering comparative and multidisciplinary study of the relationship between disease and demography, this book breaks new ground in reconstructing the evolution of mortality patterns, age structure and population density in premodern Egypt. A Pioneering Comparative And Multidisciplinary Study Of The Interaction Between Local Disease Environments And 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 Pre-modern Disease Patterns, Challenges Existing Assumptions About Ancient Age Structure, And Develops A New Methodology For The Assessment Of Egyptian Population Size. Contextualising The Study Of Roman Egypt Within The Broader Framework Of Pre-modern 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.--jacket. Machine Generated Contents Note: 1. Mortality Patterns And Causes Of Death1 -- 2. Age Structure And Life Expectancy118 -- 3. Population Size And Demographic Change181. By Walter Scheidel. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [259]-279 And Index. DEATH ON THE NILE: DISEASE AND THE DEMOGRAPHY OF ROMAN EGYPT 3 CONTENTS 7 Abbreviations 9 List of maps, figures, and tables 11 Maps 18 Introduction 21 1. Mortality patterns and causes of death 31 2. Age structure and life expectancy 148 3. Population size and demographic change 211 Appendix One Months of death in epitaphs from ancient and medieval Egypt and Nubia 281 Appendix Two Persons with exact ages in the census returns 286 Bibliography 289 Index 311 SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE -1