PUBLICATIONS

 

 

Books

Monographs

Death on the Nile: disease and the demography of Roman Egypt, Brill: Leiden, Boston and Cologne, 2001 (Mnemosyne Supplement Volume 228). XXX + 286 p.  Buy  Reviews  Google book

Measuring sex, age and death in the Roman empire: explorations in ancient demography, Journal of Roman Archaeology: Ann Arbor, MI, 1996 (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement Volume 21). 184 p.  Buy  Reviews

Grundpacht und Lohnarbeit in der Landwirtschaft des römischen Italien, Peter Lang: Frankfurt a. M., 1994. XIV + 281 p.  Reviews

 

 

Edited volumes

[with Peter Bang] The Oxford handbook of the ancient state: Near East and Mediterranean, Oxford University Press: New York, in press. c.600 p.

The Cambridge companion to the Roman economy, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, in press. c.400 p.

[with Alessandro Barchiesi] The Oxford handbook of Roman studies, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2010. XVIII + 947 p.  Buy

Rome and China: comparative perspectives on ancient world empires, Oxford University Press: New York, 2009 (paperback edition 2010). XVI + 240 p.  Buy  Reviews

[with Ian Morris] The dynamics of ancient empires: state power from Assyria to Byzantium, Oxford University Press: New York, 2009 (paperback edition 2010). XVIII + 381 p.  Buy  Reviews

[with Ian Morris and Richard Saller] The Cambridge economic history of the Greco-Roman world, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2007. XVI + 942 p.  Buy  Reviews

[with Sitta von Reden] The ancient economy, Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, and Routledge: New York, 2002 (paperback edition 2002). XXII + 282 p.  Buy  Reviews

[with Peter Siewert, Stefan Brenne, Birgitta Eder and Herbert Heftner] Ostrakismos-Testimonien I: Die Zeugnisse antiker Autoren, der Inschriften und Ostraka über das athenische Scherbengericht aus vorhellenistischer Zeit (487-322 v. Chr.), Steiner Verlag Stuttgart: Stuttgart, 2002 (Historia Einzelschrift 155). 555 p.  Reviews

Debating Roman demography, Brill: Leiden, Boston and Cologne, 2001 (Mnemosyne Supplement Volume 211). X + 242 p.  Buy  Reviews

Peter Garnsey, Cities, peasants and food in classical antiquity: essays in social and economic history, edited with addenda by Walter Scheidel, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1998 (paperback edition 2004). XVIII + 336 p.  Buy  Reviews  Google book

 

 

Articles in periodicals

[with Roy J. King et al.] ‘The coming of the Greeks to Provence and Corsica: Y-chromosome models of archaic Greek colonization of the Western Mediterranean’, in: BMC Evolutionary Biology 11 (2011), 69 (doi 10.1186/1471-2148-11-69)

‘Real wages in early economies: evidence for living standards from 1800 BCE to 1300 CE’, in: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 53 (2010), 425-462

‘Coin quality, coin quantity, and coin value in early China and the Roman world’, in: American Journal of Numismatics 22 (2010), 93-118

‘In search of Roman economic growth’, in: Journal of Roman Archaeology 22 (2009), 46-70

[with Steven J. Friesen] ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman empire’, in: Journal of Roman Studies 99 (2009), 61-91

[with Peter Turchin] ‘Coin hoards speak of population declines in ancient Rome’, in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (2009), 17276-17279*

‘A peculiar institution? Greco-Roman monogamy in global context’, in: History of the Family 14 (2009), 280-291

‘When did Livy write Books 1, 3, 28 and 59?’, in: Classical Quarterly 59 (2009), 653-658

‘A model of real income growth in Roman Italy’, in: Historia 56 (2007), 322-346

‘Roman funerary commemoration and the age at first marriage’, in: Classical Philology 102 (2007), 389-402

[with Josiah Ober, Brent D. Shaw and Donna Sanclemente ] ‘Toward Open Access in ancient studies: the Princeton-Stanford working papers in Classics’, in: Hesperia 76 (2007), 229-242

‘Real slave prices and the relative cost of slave labor in the Greco-Roman world’, in: Ancient Society 35 (2005), 1-17

‘Human mobility in Roman Italy, II: The slave population’, in: Journal of Roman Studies 95 (2005), 64-79

‘Human mobility in Roman Italy, I: The free population’, in: Journal of Roman Studies 94 (2004), 1-26

‘Demographic and economic development in the ancient Mediterranean world’, in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 160 (2004), 743-757

‘The Greek demographic expansion: models and comparisons’, in: Journal of Hellenic Studies 123 (2003), 120-140

‘A model of demographic and economic change in Roman Egypt after the Antonine plague’, in: Journal of Roman Archaeology 15 (2002), 97-114

‘Roman age structure: evidence and models’, in: Journal of Roman Studies 91 (2001), 1-26

‘Emperors, aristocrats and the Grim Reaper: towards a demographic profile of the Roman élite’, in: Classical Quarterly 49 (1999), 254-281

‘The death declarations of Roman Egypt: a re-appraisal’, in: Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 36 (1999), 53-70

‘The slave population of Roman Italy: speculation and constraints’, in: Topoi 9, 1 (1999), 129-144

‘Professional historians of classical antiquity in the English-speaking world: a quantitative survey’, in: Ancient History Bulletin 13 (1999), 151-156 (Chinese translation in History and Theory, Beijing)

‘The meaning of dates on mummy labels: seasonal mortality and mortuary practice in Roman Egypt’, in: Journal of Roman Archaeology 11 (1998), 285-292

‘Quantifying the sources of slaves in the early Roman empire’, in: Journal of Roman Studies 87 (1997), 156-169

‘Brother-sister marriage in Roman Egypt’, in: Journal of Biosocial Science 29 (1997), 361-371

‘Continuity and change in classical scholarship: a quantitative survey, 1924 to 1992’, in: Ancient Society 28 (1997), 265-289

‘Finances, figures and fiction’, in: Classical Quarterly 46 (1996), 222-238

‘Brother-sister and parent-child marriage outside royal families in ancient Egypt and Iran: a challenge to the sociobiological view of incest avoidance?’, in: Ethology and Sociobiology 17 (1996), 319-340

‘What’s in an age? A comparative view of bias in the census returns of Roman Egypt’, in: Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 33 (1996), 25-59 (with: ‘Twins in Roman Egypt: postscript to BASP 33 (1996)’, 34 (1997), 35-37)

‘Reflections on the differential valuation of slaves in Diocletian’s price edict and in the United States’, in: Münstersche Beiträge zur antiken Handelsgeschichte 15, 1 (1996), 67-79

‘The most silent women of Greece and Rome: rural labour and women’s life in the ancient world’, in: Greece & Rome 42 (1995), 202-217, and 43 (1996), 1-10

‘Rekruten und Überlebende: Die demographische Struktur der römischen Legionen in der Prinzipatszeit’, in: Klio 77 (1995), 232-254

‘Incest revisited: three notes on the demography of sibling marriage in Roman Egypt’, in: Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 32, 3-4 (1995), 143-155

Libitina’s bitter gains: seasonal mortality and endemic disease in the ancient city of Rome’, in: Ancient Society 25 (1994), 151-175

‘Columellas privates ius liberorum: Literatur, Recht, Demographie. Einige Probleme’, in: Latomus 53 (1994), 513-527

‘Thukydides Pantain<et>ou Gargettios, Gegner des Perikles: Geschichte eines Phantoms’, in: Historia 43 (1994), 372-378

‘GERMANICVS und SARMATICVS: Die Ereignisgeschichte des Jahres 175 bei Cassius Dio und die Emissionsabfolge der kaiserlichen Reichsprägung’, in: Pomoerium 1 (1994), 69-74

‘Zur Angabe des Lebensalters in den römischen Grabinschriften Österreichs’, in: Römisches Österreich 19/20 (1991/92 [1994]), 143-159

‘Pächter und Grundpacht bei Columella (Colonus-Studien II)’, in: Athenaeum 81 (1993), 391-439

Servi alieni als Erben: Zum gesellschaftlichen Hintergrund’, in: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Romanistische Abteilung 110 (1993), 648-651

‘Dokument und Kontext: Aspekte der historischen Interpretation epigraphischer Quellen am Beispiel der ‘Krise des dritten Jahrhunderts’’, in: Rivista storica dell' antichità 21 (1991 [1993]), 145-164

Politio und politor bei Cato: Ein Epilog’, in: Maia 45 (1993), 125-135

‘Inschriftenstatistik und die Frage des Rekrutierungsalters römischer Soldaten’, in: Chiron 22 (1992), 281-297

Coloni und Pächter in den römischen literarischen Quellen vom 2. Jh. v. Chr. bis zur Severerzeit: Eine kritische Betrachtung (Colonus-Studien I)’, in: Athenaeum 80 (1992), 331-370

‘Neuen Wein in leere Schläuche: Jongman’s Pompeii, Modelle und die kampanische Landwirtschaft’, in: Athenaeum 80 (1992), 207-213

‘Der Germaneneinfall in Oberitalien unter Marcus Aurelius und die Emissionsabfolge der kaiserlichen Reichsprägung’, in: Chiron 20 (1990), 1-18

‘Feldarbeit von Frauen in der antiken Landwirtschaft’, in: Gymnasium 97 (1990), 405-431 (extract reprinted in: E. Hinrichs and J. Stehling [eds.], Wir machen Geschichte 2, Diesterweg: Frankfurt a. M., 1997, 204)

‘Quasikolonen bei Vergil?’, in: Klio 72 (1990), 166-172

‘Probleme der Datierung des Costoboceneinfalls im Balkanraum unter Marcus Aurelius’, in: Historia 39 (1990), 493-498

Agricola, colonus, cultor, rusticus: Beobachtungen zum rechtlichen und sozialen Status der ‘Landwirte’ in Columellas Schrift de re rustica’, in: Maia 42 (1990), 257-265

‘Zur Lohnarbeit bei Columella’, in: Tyche 4 (1989), 139-146

[with Peter Siewert] ‘Friedensschlüsse des 5. Jahrhunderts zwischen Athen und Sparta bei Andokides und Theopomp’, in: Tyche 3 (1988), 163-170

 

 

Book chapters

‘State revenue and expenditure in the Han and Roman empires’, in: W. Scheidel (ed.), State power in ancient China and Rome (forthcoming)

‘Rome, Tenochtitlan, and beyond: comparing empires across space and time’, in: C. Lyons and J. Pohl (eds.), Altera Roma: art and empire from the Aztecs to New Spain (forthcoming)

‘Roman real wages in context’, in: F. de Callataÿ (ed.), The Roman economy and beyond: quantification in the long term, Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming)

‘Studying the state’, in P. F. Bang and W. Scheidel (eds.), The Oxford handbook of the ancient state: Near East and Mediterranean, Oxford University Press: New York (in press)

‘Approaching the Roman economy’, in W. Scheidel (ed.), The companion to the Roman economy, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge (in press)

‘Slavery’, in W. Scheidel (ed.), The companion to the Roman economy, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge (in press)

‘Physical wellbeing’, in W. Scheidel (ed.), The companion to the Roman economy, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge (in press)

‘Disease and death’, in: P. Erdkamp (ed.), The companion to ancient Rome, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge (in press)

‘Roman wellbeing and the economic consequences of the Antonine Plague’, in: E. Lo Cascio (ed.), L’impatto dellapeste antonina, Edipuglia: Bari (in press) [with a contribution by John Sutherland]

‘Epigraphy and demography: birth, marriage, family, and death’, in: J. Davies and J. Wilkes (eds.), Epigraphy and the historical sciences, Proceedings of the British Academy vol. 177, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2012, 101-129 (in press)

‘Age and health’, in: C. Riggs (ed.), The Oxford handbook of Roman Egypt, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2012, 305-316 (in press)

‘The Roman slave supply’, in: K. Bradley and P. Cartledge (eds.), The Cambridge world history of slavery, 1: The ancient Mediterranean world, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2011, 287-310

‘Fiscal regimes and the ‘First Great Divergence’ between eastern and western Eurasia’, in: P. F. Bang and C. A. Bayly (eds.), Tributary empires in global history, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2011, 193-204

‘A comparative perspective on the determinants of the scale and productivity of maritime trade in the Roman Mediterranean’, in: W. V. Harris and K. Iara (eds.), Maritime technology in the ancient economy: ship-design and navigation, Journal of Roman Archaeology: Portsmouth, RI, 2011, 21-37

‘The Xiongnu and the comparative study of empire,’ in: U. Brosseder and B. K. Miller (eds.), Xiongnu archaeology – multidisciplinary perspectives on the first steppe empire in Inner Asia, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn: Bonn, 2011, 111-120

‘Monogamy and polygyny’, in: B. Rawson (ed.), A companion to families in the Greek and Roman worlds, Wiley-Blackwell: Malden MA, Oxford and Chichester, 2011, 108-115

‘Economy and quality of life’, in: A. Barchiesi and W. Scheidel (eds.), The Oxford handbook of Roman studies, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2010, 593-609

‘From the ‘Great Convergence’ to the ‘First Great Divergence’: Roman and Qin-Han state formation and its aftermath’, in: W. Scheidel (ed.), Rome and China: comparative perspectives on ancient world empires, Oxford University Press: New York, 2009, 11-23

‘The monetary systems of the Han and Roman empires’, in: W. Scheidel (ed.), Rome and China: comparative perspectives on ancient world empires, Oxford University Press: New York, 2009, 137-207

‘Sex and empire: a Darwinian perspective’, in: I. Morris and W. Scheidel (eds.), The dynamics of ancient empires: state power from Assyria to Byzantium, Oxford University Press: New York, 2009, 255-324

‘The demographic background’, in: S. M. Hübner and D. M. Ratzan (eds.), Growing up fatherless in antiquity, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2009, 31-40

‘New ways of studying incomes in the Roman economy’, in: A. Bowman and A. Wilson (eds.), Quantifying the Roman economy: methods and problems, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2009, 346-352

‘Demography and sociology’, in: G. Boys-Stones, B. Graziosi and P. Vasunia (eds.), The Oxford handbook of Hellenic studies, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2009, 665-677

‘Population and demography’, in: A. Erskine (ed.), A companion to ancient history, Wiley-Blackwell: Malden MA, Oxford, and Chichester, 2009, 134-145

‘Roman population size: the logic of the debate’, in: L. de Ligt and S. J. Northwood (eds.), People, land, and politics: demographic developments and the transformation of Roman Italy, 300 BC – AD 14, Brill: Leiden, 2008, 17-70

‘The comparative economics of slavery in the Greco-Roman world’, in: E. Dal Lago and C. Katsari (eds.), Slave systems, ancient and modern, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2008, 105-126  Review

‘The divergent evolution of coinage in eastern and western Eurasia’, in: W. V. Harris (ed.), The monetary systems of the Greeks and Romans, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2008, 267-286

‘Demography’, in: W. Scheidel, I. Morris and R. Saller (eds.), The Cambridge economic history of the Greco-Roman world, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2007, 38-86

‘Marriage, families, and survival: demographic aspects’, in: P. Erdkamp (ed.), A companion to the Roman army, Blackwell: Malden MA, Oxford, and Carlton, 2007, 417-434

‘Mobilisierung und Beteiligung: die griechischen Stadtstaaten, Karthago und Rom’, in: G. Mandl and I. Steffelbauer (eds.), Krieg in der antiken Welt, Magnus Verlag: Essen, 2007, 420-435

‘Stratification, deprivation and quality of life’, in: M. Atkins and R. Osborne (eds.), Poverty in the Roman world, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2006, 40-59

‘The demography of Roman state formation in Italy’, in: M. Jehne and R. Pfeilschifter (eds.), Herrschaft ohne Integration? Rom und Italien in republikanischer Zeit, Verlag Antike: Frankfurt a. M., 2006, 207-226

‘Creating a metropolis: a comparative demographic perspective’, in: W. V. Harris and G. Ruffini (eds.), Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece, Brill: Leiden, Boston and Cologne, 2004, 1-31

‘Ancient Egyptian sibling marriage and the Westermarck effect’, in: A. P. Wolf and W. H. Durham (eds.), Inbreeding, incest, and the incest taboo: the state of knowledge at the turn of the century, Stanford University Press: Stanford, 2004, 93-108

‘Gräberstatistik und Bevölkerungsgeschichte. Attika im achten Jahrhundert’, in: R. Rollinger and C. Ulf (eds.), Griechische Archaik: Interne Entwicklungen – externe Impulse, Akademie Verlag: Berlin, 2004, 177-185

‘Germs for Rome’, in: C. Edwards and G. Woolf (eds.), Rome the cosmopolis, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2003, 158-176

‘Helot numbers: a simplified model’, in: N. Luraghi and S. E. Alcock (eds.), Helots and their masters in Laconia and Messenia: histories, ideologies, structures, Harvard University Press: Cambridge MA and London, 2003, 240-247

‘The hireling and the slave: a transatlantic perspective’, in: P. Cartledge, E. E. Cohen and L. Foxhall (eds.), Money, labour and land: approaches to the economies of ancient Greece, Routledge: London and New York, 2002, 175-184

‘Brother-sister and parent-child marriage in premodern societies’, in: K. Aoki and T. Akazawa (eds.), Human mate choice and prehistoric marital networks: International Symposium 16, November 20-24, 2000, International Research Center for Japanese Studies: Kyoto, 2002, 33-47

‘T 17: Andokides 1, 107: Rückruf von Ostrakisierten und vielleicht auch anderen Verbannten zur Zeit der Perserkriege’, 271-276; ‘T 24: Andokides 3, 3-4: Die Rückkehr des ‘ostrakisierten’ Miltiades’, 342-349; ‘T 25: Platon, Gorgias 516d: Die Ostrakisierung des Themistokles und des Kimon’, 350-356; ‘T 28: Theopomp FGrHist 115 F 88: Der Rückruf des ostrakisierten Kimon’, 373-386; ‘T 29: Theopomp FGrHist 115 F 91: Thukydides Melesiou als (ostrakisierter) Gegner des Perikles’, 387-390; ‘T 30: Theopomp FGrHist 115 F 96b: Ostrakisierung und Tod des Hyperbolos’, 391-400; ‘T 36: Aristoteles, Politika 3, 1288 a 24-26: Ostrakismos als Maßnahme gegen herausragende Persönlichkeiten’, 432-434; [with H. Taeuber] ‘Vorbemerkung: Zu Verfasserschaft und Abfassungszeit der Athenaion Politeia’, 447-448; [with H. Taeuber] ‘T 40: Athenaion Politeia 27, 4: Die Ostrakisierung des Damon’, 459-464; [with H. Taeuber] ‘T 41: Athenaion Politeia 43, 5: Vorabstimmung in der Volksversammlung über die Abhaltung eines Ostrakismos’, 465-471; ‘Zum Verhältnis der Testimonien in Aristoteles‘ Politika zu den Testimonien in der Athenaion Politeia’, 472-474; ‘Aussagen der Testimonien über die Institution des Ostrakismos’, 483-494; ‘Die urkundliche Überlieferung’, 500-501, in: Ostrakismos-Testimonien I: Die Zeugnisse antiker Autoren, der Inschriften und Ostraka über das athenische Scherbengericht aus vorhellenistischer Zeit (487-322 v. Chr.), edited by P. Siewert in collaboration with S. Brenne, B. Eder, H. Heftner and W. Scheidel, Steiner Verlag Stuttgart: Stuttgart, 2002 (Historia Einzelschrift 155)

‘Progress and problems in Roman demography’, in: W. Scheidel (ed.), Debating Roman demography, Brill: Leiden, Boston and Cologne, 2001, 1-81

‘Salute, agricoltura e popolazione in Egitto nell’età romana e nel XIX secolo’, in: D. Vera (ed.), Demografia, sistemi agrari, regimi alimentari nel mondo antico: Atti de convegno internazionale di studi (Parma 17-19 ottobre 1997), Edipuglia: Bari, 1999, 309-324

‘The demography of Roman slavery and manumission’, in: M. Bellancourt-Valdher and J.-N. Corvisier (eds.), La démographie historique antique, Artois Presses Université: Arras, 1999, 107-115

‘Frauen als Ware: Sklavinnen in der Wirtschaft der griechisch-römischen Welt’, in: E. Specht (ed.), Frauenreichtum: Die Frau als Wirtschaftsfaktor im Altertum, Wiener Frauenverlag: Vienna, 1994, 143-180

‘Grain cultivation in the villa economy of Roman Italy’, in: J. Carlsen et al. (eds.), Landuse in the Roman empire (Analecta Romana Instituti Danici, Supplementum XXII), L’Erma di Bretschneider: Rome, 1994 (reprint 1997), 159-166

‘Sklaven und Freigelassene als Pächter und ihre ökonomische Funktion in der römischen Landwirtschaft (Colonus-Studien III)’, in: H. Sancisi-Weerdenburg et al. (eds.), De Agricultura: In memoriam Pieter Willem de Neeve (1945-1990), J. C. Gieben: Amsterdam, 1993, 182-196

‘Frau und Landarbeit in der Alten Geschichte’, in: E. Specht (ed.), Nachrichten aus der Zeit: Ein Streifzug durch die Frauengeschichte des Altertums, Wiener Frauenverlag: Vienna, 1992, 195-235

 

 

Short notes and minor contributions

Essay on ‘On the probable age structure of the Roman population’ and ‘Graveyards for historians’, in: K. Hopkins, The pattern of empire, edited by C. Kelly, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, in press

Demographie’, in: H. Heinen (ed.), Handwörterbuch der antiken Sklaverei, Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart, in press

‘Rome and China: a tale of two empires’, in: Ad Familiares 37 (2009), 9-11

‘Epidemics’, ‘Roman population and demography’, in: M. Gagarin (ed.), Encyclopedia of ancient Greece and Rome, Oxford University Press: New York, 2009

‘Demography of the ancient world’, in: S. N. Durlauf and L. E. Blume (eds.), The new Palgrave dictionary of economics online, Palgrave Macmillan: 2008

‘Vom Nutzen des Open Access in den Geisteswissenschaften’, in: FWF Info 65 (2008), 14-15

‘From monetization to culture change’, in: Archaeological Dialogues 12.1 (2005), 35-37

‘Bibliographie’, in: W. Szaivert and R. Wolters, Löhne, Preise, Werte: Quellen zur römischen Geldwirtschaft, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: Darmstadt, 2005, 357-373

Überleben’, in: Historicum 83 (2004), 16-20

[with Brett Rogers] ‘Driving stakes, driving cars: Californian car culture, sex, and identity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer’, in: Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 13/14 (2004)

‘Demography of ancient world’, in: P. Demeny and G. McNicoll (eds.), Encyclopedia of population, Macmillan Reference USA: New York, 2003, 44-48

‘Foreword’, in: M. I. Finley (ed.), Classical slavery, Frank Cass: London and Portland, Reprint 1999, VII-XIII

‘Moses I. Finley’, ‘Galley slaves’, ‘Ancient Mediterranean slave trade’, in: P. Finkelman and J. C. Miller (eds.), Macmillan encyclopedia of world slavery, vols. 1-2, Simon & Schuster Macmillan: New York, 1998, 332-333, 355-356, 830-831

Servus vicarius’, ‘Stoicism’, ‘Vernae’, in: J. P. Rodriguez (ed.), The Historical encyclopedia of world slavery, vol. 2, ABC-CLIO Press: Santa Barbara, 1997, 578-579, 611-612, 670-671

‘Instrumentum vocale: Bauern und Sklaven in der römischen Landwirtschaft’, in: Historicum 47 (1996), 24-29

[with Monika Gerstmayer, Wolfgang Szaivert and Reinhard Wolters] ‘Quellensammlung zu Löhnen, Preisen und Wertangaben im römischen Reich (3. Jh. v. Chr. – 3. Jh. n. Chr.)’, in: M. Fell et al. (eds.), Datenbanken in der Alten Geschichte, Scripta Mercaturae Verlag: St. Katharinen, 1994, 91-95

‘Juristic terminology in Columella: an addendum’, in: Eranos 89 (1991), 64

‘Ein Fall von Großpacht? Zu einer neuen Auflösung von CIL IX 3674, 7’, in: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Romanistische Abteilung 107 (1990), 373-375

‘Free-born and manumitted bailiffs in the Graeco-Roman world’, in: Classical Quarterly 40 (1990), 591-593

 

 

Working papers and databases (online only)

‘Updated citation scores for ancient historians in the United States’, Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, Version 1.0, September 2011

‘Human development and quality of life in the long run: the case of Greece’, Athens Dialogues E-Journal 2010 (http://athensdialogues.chs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/athensdialogues.woa/wa/dist?dis=49)

‘How to make ancient history programs less ancient’, Committee on Ancient History of the American Philological Association, April 2008

‘Citation scores for ancient historians in the United States’, Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, Version 1.0, February 2008

‘Comparative history as comparative advantage: China’s potential contribution to the study of ancient Mediterranean history’, Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, Version 1.0, April 2006

‘Republics between hegemony and empire: how ancient city-states built empires and the USA doesn’t (anymore)’, Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, Version 1.0, February 2006

‘Military commitments and political bargaining in ancient Greece’, Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, Version 1.0, November 2005

‘Prices and other monetary valuations in Roman history: ancient literary evidence and modern scholarship’, www.stanford.edu/~scheidel/NumIntro.htm

 

 

Book reviews

Review essays

‘Die biologische Dimension der Alten Geschichte: Bemerkungen zu Robert Sallares, The ecology of the ancient Greek world’ [review essay on: R. Sallares, The ecology of the ancient Greek world, London, 1991], in: Tyche 11 (1996), 207-222

‘Slavery and the shackled mind: on fortune-telling and slave mentality in the Graeco-Roman world’ [review essay on: F. Kudlien, Sklaven-Mentalität im Spiegel antiker Wahrsagerei, Stuttgart 1991], in: Ancient History Bulletin 7 (1993), 107-114

‘A new ‘Roman agrarian history’?’ [review essay on: D. Flach, Römische Agrargeschichte, Munich 1990], in: Ancient History Bulletin 6 (1992), 30-41

 

Reviews and notices

Review of: A. Launaro, Peasants and slaves: the rural population of Roman Italy (200 BC to AD 100), Cambridge 2011, for: Journal of Roman Archaeology, in preparation

[with Joseph Manning] Review of: W. Clarysse and D. J. Thompson, Counting the people in Hellenistic Egypt, Vols. 1-2, Cambridge 2006, in: Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 47 (2010), 267-273

Review of: T. P. Wiseman, Remembering the Roman people: essays on late-republican politics and literature, Oxford 2008, in: American Journal of Philology 131 (2010), 335-338

Review of: G. Stangl, Antike Populationen in Zahlen: Überprüfungsmöglichkeiten von demografischen Zahlenangaben in antiken Texten, Frankfurt a.M. 2008, in: Historische Zeitschrift 290 (2010), 737-738

Review of: R. Rollinger and C. Ulf (eds.), Commerce and monetary systems in the ancient world: means of transmission and cultural interaction, Stuttgart 2004, in: Ancient West & East 8 (2009), 414-416

Review of: J. Haas, Die Umweltkrise des 3. Jahrhunderts n.Chr. im Nordwesten des Imperium Romanum, Stuttgart 2006, in: Journal of Roman Studies 98 (2008), 268-269

Review of: M. H. Hansen, The shotgun method: the demography of the ancient Greek city-state culture, Columbia and London 2006; Studies in the population of Aigina, Athens and Eretria, Copenhagen 2006, in: Klio 90 (2008), 487-489

Review of: A. M. Eckstein, Mediterranean anarchy, interstate war, and the rise of Rome, Berkeley 2006, in: Journal of Interdisciplinary History 39 (2008), 104-106

Review of: L. Foxhall, Olive cultivation in ancient Greece: seeking the ancient economy, Oxford 2007; A. Moreno, Feeding the democracy: the Athenian grain supply in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, Oxford 2007; G. J. Oliver, War, food and politics in early Hellenistic Athens, Oxford 2007, in: Times Literary Supplement 5487, May 30, 2008, 27

Review of: M. Sartre, The Middle East under Rome, Cambridge MA 2005, in: Journal of Economic History 67 (2007), 236-237

Review of: E. Herrmann-Otto (ed.), Unfreie Arbeits- und Lebensverhältnisse von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart: eine Einführung, Hildesheim 2005, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.08.54

Review of: H.-J. Drexhage, H. Konen and K. Ruffing, Die Wirtschaft des römischen Reiches (1.-3. Jahrhundert): eine Einführung, Berlin 2002, in: Classical Review 55 (2005), 251-253

Review of: H. Bellen and H. Heinen (eds.), Bibliographie zur antiken Sklaverei, 2 vols., Stuttgart 2003, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.09.39

Review of: L. Schumacher, Slaverei in der Antike: Alltag und Schicksal der Unfreien, Munich 2001, in: Journal of Roman Archaeology 16 (2003), 577-581

Review of: R. S. Bagnall et al., The census register P.Oxy 984: The reverse of Pindar's Paeans, Brussels 1997, in: Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 38 (2001), 147-151

Review of: J. Andreau et al. (eds.), Entretiens d’archéologie et d’histoire: économie antique. Prix et formations des prix dans les économies antiques, Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges 1997, in: Classical Review 51 (2001), 323-325

Review of: E. Lo Cascio (ed.), Terre, proprietari e contadini dell'impero romano: dall’affitto agrario al colonato tardoantico, Rome 1997; M. Mircovic, The later Roman colonate and freedom, Philadelphia 1997, in: Journal of Roman Archaeology 13 (2000), 727-732

Review of: E. Lo Cascio (ed.), Terre, proprietari e contadini dell'impero romano: dall’affitto agrario al colonato tardoantico, Rome 1997, in: Classical Review 50 (2000), 201-202

Notice of: M. Moggi and G. Cordiano (eds.), Schiavi e dipendenti nell’ambito dell’‘oikos’ e dellafamilia, Pisa 1997, in: Classical Review 50 (2000), 356-357

Review of: J.-U. Krause et al., Schichten, Konflikte, religiöse Gruppen, materielle Kultur (Bibliographie zur römischen Sozialgeschichte 2), Stuttgart 1998, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1999.01.4

Notice of: H. Solin, Die stadtrömischen Sklavennamen: ein Namenbuch, 3 vols., Stuttgart 1996, in: Classical Review 49 (1999), 296-297

Notice of: P. Desy, Recherches sur l’économie apulienne au IIe et au Ier siècle avant notre ère, Brussels 1993, in: Gnomon 70 (1998), 365-366

Review of: P. Hunt, Slaves, warfare and ideology in the Greek historians, Cambridge 1998, in: Anglo-Hellenic Review 18 (1998), 19-20

Review of: F. Hinard (ed.), La mort au quotidien dans le monde romain, Paris 1995, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 7 (1996), 524-532

Review of: R. S. Bagnall and B. W. Frier, The demography of Roman Egypt, Cambridge 1994, in: Population Studies 50 (1996), 555

Review of: K. Bradley, Slavery and society at Rome, Cambridge 1994, in: Phoenix 50 (1996), 174-176

Review of: E. Herrmann-Otto, Ex ancilla natus: Untersuchungen zu den ‘hausgeborenen’ Sklaven und Sklavinnen im Westen des römischen Kaiserreiches, Stuttgart 1994, in: Tyche 11 (1996), 274-278

Review of: K.-P. Johne (ed.), Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft des Römischen Reiches im 3. Jahrhundert, Berlin 1994, in: Journal of Roman Studies 85 (1995), 289-290

Notice of: B. Forsén, Lex Licinia Sextia de modo agrorum – fiction or reality?, Helsinki 1991, in: Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft 47 (1994), 125-126

Notice of: N. Criniti, La Tabula Alimentaria di Veleia, Parma 1991, in: Tyche 9 (1994), 229

Notice of: D. Hägermann and H. Schneider, Landbau und Handwerk 750 v. Chr. bis 1000 n. Chr. (Propyläen Technikgeschichte 1), Berlin 1991, in: Tyche 9 (1994), 234

Notice of: J.-U. Krause, Die Familie und weitere anthropologische Grundlagen (Bibliographie zur römischen Sozialgeschichte 1), Stuttgart 1992, in: Tyche 9 (1994), 237-238

Notice of: L. P. Marinovic et al., Die Sklaverei in den östlichen Provinzen des römischen Reiches im 1.-3. Jahrhundert, Stuttgart 1992, in: Tyche 9 (1994), 239-240

Review of: J. K. Evans, War, women and children in ancient Rome, London & New York 1991, in: Tyche 8 (1993), 242-243

Review of: G. Wesch-Klein, Liberalitas in rem publicam: Private Aufwendungen zugunsten von Gemeinden im römischen Afrika bis 284 n. Chr., Bonn 1990, in: Tyche 7 (1992), 249-251

Review of: R. Duncan-Jones, Structure and scale in the Roman economy, Cambridge 1990, in: Tyche 6 (1991), 256-259

Notice of: P. Garnsey, Famine and food-supply in the Graeco-Roman world: responses to risk and crisis, Cambridge 1988, in: Tyche 5 (1990), 202-203

Notice of: P. Garnsey and R. Saller, Das römische Kaiserreich: Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Kultur, [German transl.] Reinbek 1989, in: Tyche 5 (1990), 203