About the Author

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 death in the Roman empire: explorations in ancient demography (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement Volume 21,1996)

Reviews

'Any serious student of Roman history who has not yet read the book should do so now…’
Dominic Rathbone, Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2002.