The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World

Editors

Walter Scheidel, Stanford University, California
Walter Scheidel is Dickason Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics and History at Stanford University. His publications include Measuring Sex, Age and Death in the Roman Empire (1996), Death on the Nile: Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt (2001) and, as editor, Debating Roman Demography (2001) and The Ancient Economy (2002, with Sitta von Reden).

Ian Morris, Stanford University, California
Ian Morris is Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics and Professor of History at Stanford University and directs Stanford's excavation at Monte Polizzo, Sicily. His publications include The Greeks: History, Culture, and Society (2005, with Barry Powell) and The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models (2005, with Joe Manning).

Richard P. Saller, Stanford University, California
Richard Saller is Kleinheinz Family Professor of European Studies and Professor of Classics and History and the Vernon R. and Lysbeth Warren Anderson Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. His publications include Personal Patronage under the Early Empire (Cambridge, 1982) and Patriarchy, Property and Death in the Roman Family (Cambridge, 1994) and he is co-author of The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture (1987).

Contributors

Ian Morris, Richard Saller, Walter Scheidel, Robert Sallares, Bruce W. Frier, Dennis P. Kehoe, Helmuth Schneider, John Bennet, Michael Dietler, Robin Osborne, Peter R. Bedford, John K. Davies, Astrid Möller, Sitta von Reden, Robartus J. van der Spek, Joseph G. Manning, Gary Reger, Jean-Paul Morel, William V. Harris, Neville Morley, Willem M. Jongman, Elio Lo Cascio, Philippe Leveau, Susan E. Alcock, Dominic W. Rathbone, David Cherry, Andrea Giardina

Awards

• 2008 Winner Choice Outstanding Academic Title