Parkin Tim G. Demography and Roman society

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. — 225 p.The book confronts the statistical problem as it applies to the Roman Empire. The first chapter “Ancient Evidence” shows all available ancient sources - the epitaphs giving age at death, the Egyptian census returns, Ulpian's life table, the small corpus of analyzed skeletons. The second chapter “Ancient History and Modern Demography: Methods and Models” presents a clear introduction to the techniques of modern demography, especially the modelling methods that demographers now use when discussing incomplete or suspect statistics. The third chapter “Demographic Impressions of the Roman World” offers heterogeneous comments on aspects of Roman mortality and fertility.