Sallares R. Malaria and Rome: A History of Malaria in Ancient Italy

Oxford University Press, 2002. — 360 p. — ISBN 0199248508.Malaria and Rome will be the initial comprehensive book on the history of malaria in Roman Italy. Aimed at an interdisciplinary readership, it explores the evolution and ecology of malaria, its medical and demographic effects on human populations in antiquity, its social and economic effects, the human responses to it, plus the human interpretations of it.