Meiggs Russell. Roman Ostia

Second edition. — Clarendon Press, 1973. — xx + 622 p., 40 plates, 1 plan.Meiggs' study of ancient Ostia was first published in 1960. The book was so unanimously praised that already six years later this original edition was out of print. Now we have the second edition, which in reality is rather a reprint: as the author states (pag. xi), economic considerations ruled out a complete resetting of the type. In the text of the original edition small corrections have been introduced, but passages which in the light of new evidence or new arguments need more change have been marked and are more fully discussed in a number of 'revisions' (pp. 594-8).