Malaria and Rome
Subtitle: A History of Malaria in Ancient Italy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 12, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780199248506
First sentence: Keith Hopkins moved the study of the demography of the ancient Roman world into a new era with his demonstration that 'ages at death derived from Roman tombstones cannot be used to estimate expectation of life at birth or at subsequent ages'.