Death and disease in the ancient city
By: edited by Valerie M. Hope and Eireann Marshall
Contributors: Hope, Valerie M., 1968-; Marshall, Eireann, 1967-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Medicine, Greek and Roman; Urban health -- Rome; Urban health -- Greece
Notes: "Bibliography": p. 174-189

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Death and disease in Cyrene: a case study / Eireanna Marshall; title: Sickness in the body politic: medical imagery in the Greek polis / Roger Brock; title: Polis nosousa: Greek ideas about the city and disease in the first century BC / Jennifer Clarke Kosak; title: Death and epidemic disease in classical Athens / James Longrigg; title: Medical thoughts on urban pollution / Vivian Nutton; title: Towns and marshes in the ancient world / Federico Borca; title: On the margins of the city of Rome / John R. Patterson; title: Contempt and respect: the treatment of the corpses in ancient Rome / Valerie M. Hope; title: Dealing with the dead: undertakers, executioners and potter's field in ancient Rome / John Bodel; title: Death-pollution and funeral in the city of Rome / Hugh Lindsay