Books
Monographs
What is ancient history?, Princeton University
Press: Princeton, 2025. 319 p. (in press) (Audio book by Recorded Books under contract) Buy
Escape from Rome: the failure of empire and the road to prosperity, Princeton University
Press: Princeton, 2019 (Princeton Economic History of the Western World). XX +
670 p. (Audio book: Recorded Books, 2019.
Paperback edition 2021. Translations: Chinese Traditional translation:
Acropolis, 2022; LUISS University Press, 2022. Under contract: Chinese
Simplified: Gingko Book Co.; Turkish: Vakifbank Kultur Yayinlari Buy Reviews,
events and media coverage
The great leveler: violence and the history of inequality from the
Stone Age to the twenty-first century, Princeton University Press: Princeton, 2017
(Princeton Economic History of the Western World). XVIII + 504 p. (Audio book: Tantor Audio, 2017. Paperback edition
2018; Princeton Classics edition 2025. Korean translation: Eco Livre, 2017;
German: WBG Theiss, 2018; Portuguese: Almedina, 2018; Spanish: Editorial
Crítica, 2018; Chinese Simplified: China CITIC Press, 2019; Italian: Il Mulino,
2019; Japanese: Toyo Keizai, 2019; Russian: AST Publishing, 2019; Czech: Argo,
2020; Portuguese (Brazil): Zahar Editoria, 2020; French: Actes Sud, 2021;
Chinese Traditional: Linking Publishing, 2023; Turkish: Fol Kitap, 2024. Under
contract: Polish – Glowbook) Buy Reviews, events and media
coverage
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
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 and Christopher Bayly †] The Oxford world history of empire. Oxford
University Press: New York, 2021. 2 vols. XXVIII + 552 p., XXXII + 1318 p. (Translations under contract: Chinese Simplified
–Ginkgo Book Co.; Korean: Book 21 Publishing Grooup) Buy Reviews
The science of Roman history: biology,
climate, and the future of the past, Princeton University Press: Princeton and Oxford,
2018 (paperback edition 2019). XVIII + 258 p. (Chinese Simplified translation: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2024) Buy Reviews
[with John Bodel] On human bondage: after Slavery and social death, Wiley-Blackwell:
Malden MA, Oxford and Chichester, 2017. XIV + 314 p. Buy
[with Andrew Monson] Fiscal regimes and the political economy of premodern states,
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2015 (paperback edition 2018). XVI + 586
p. Buy Reviews
State power in ancient China
and Rome,
Oxford University Press: New York, 2015 (paperback edition 2021). XVIII + 303
p. (Chinese Simplified translation: SDX
Joint Publishing, 2020) Buy Reviews
[with Peter Fibiger Bang] The Oxford handbook of
the state in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean, Oxford University
Press: New York, 2013 (paperback edition 2015). XII + 555 p. Buy Reviews
The Cambridge companion to
the Roman economy, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2012 (paperback edition 2012).
XIV + 443 p. Buy Reviews
[with Alessandro Barchiesi] The Oxford handbook
of Roman studies, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2010 (paperback edition
2020). XVIII + 947 p. Buy Reviews
[with Ian Morris] The dynamics of ancient
empires: state power from Assyria to Byzantium, Oxford University Press:
[with Ian Morris and Richard
Saller] The Cambridge economic history of the Greco-Roman world,
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2007 (paperback edition 2012). XVI + 942
p. Buy Reviews
[with Sitta von Reden] The ancient economy, Edinburgh
University Press: Edinburgh, and Routledge:
[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:
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
Interactive digital publication
[with Elijah Meeks] ‘ORBIS:
the Stanford geospatial network model of the Roman world’, orbis.stanford.edu, Version
1.0, May 2012; 2.0, July 2014
Articles in periodicals
‘Slavery’s Rome,’ in: Arethusa 58 (2025), in
press
‘Non-Archimedean
modernities,’ in: Interdisciplinary
Science Reviews 47 (2022), 520-529
‘Fitness and power: the
contribution of genetics to the history of differential reproduction,’ in: Evolutionary
Psychology 19.4 (2021) (‘Special collection: human history as natural
history’)
‘Roman wealth and wealth inequality in comparative perspective,’ in: Journal of Roman Archaeology 33 (2020), 341-353
[with Fritz-Heiner Mutschler] ‘The benefits of comparison: a call for the comparative study of ancient civilizations’, in: Journal of Ancient Civilizations 32 (2017), 107-121 (also published in Chinese Simplified)
[with Ian Morris] ‘What is ancient history?’, in: Daedalus 145, 2 (2016), 113-121
‘Benford’s
Law and numerical stylization of monetary valuations in classical literature’,
in: Classical Quarterly 66 (2016),
815-821
‘The great leveler: violence and the history of inequality from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century’ (in Chinese Simplified), in: Chinese Journal of European Studies 34, 6 (2016), 136-150
‘Evolutionary psychology and the historian’, in: American Historical Review 119 (2014), 1563-1575
‘The shape of the Roman world: modelling imperial connectivity’, in: Journal of Roman Archaeology 27 (2014), 7-32
[with Brian J. Dermody et al.] ‘A
virtual water network of the Roman world’, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 18 (2014), 5025-5040
‘Explaining the maritime freight charges in Diocletian’s Prices Edict’, in: Journal of Roman Archaeology 26 (2013), 464-468
[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 (abridged German
translation in: E. Herrmann-Otto [ed.], Antike
Sklaverei, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: Darmstadt, 2013, 73-91)
‘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,
‘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
‘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
‘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
‘The most silent women of
‘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
‘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
‘Roman
economic performance and inequality: why we need the big picture,’ in: E.
Murphy and R. Stephan (eds.), From the
economic to the social: inequalities in the Roman world, Oxford University
Press: New York (forthcoming)
‘Building
up slaveries in ancient Italy and the central Sudan’, in: S. Bernard, L.
Mignone and D. Padilla Peralta (eds.), Making
the middle republic: new approaches to Rome and Italy, 400-200 BCE,
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2023, 80-100
‘The end of “peak empire:” the collapse of the
Roman, Han, and Jin empires’, in: M. A. Centeno, P. W. Callahan, P. A. Larcey
and T. S. Patterson (eds.), How worlds
collapse: what history, systems, and complexity can teach us about our modern
world and fragile future, Routledge: New York, 2023, 108-123
‘Construcción
de estatus, acumulación de oportunidades y desigualdad material en la antigua
roma: la mirada desde la sociología,’ in: M. Campagno, J.
Gallego, C. Garcia Mac Gaw, and R. Payne (eds.), Desigualdades antiguas: economía, cultura y sociedad en el Oriente
Medio y el Mediterráneo, Miño y Dávila: Buenos Aires, 2023, 323-337
‘Piketty
among the ancients – capital and beyond’, in: M. Koedijk and N. Morley
(eds.), Capital in classical antiquity,
Palgrave Macmillan: London, 2022, 355-371
[with Josiah Ober] ‘Inequality’,
in: S. von Reden (ed.), The Cambridge
companion to the ancient Greek economy, Cambridge University Press:
Cambridge, 2022, 404-420
‘The
scale of empire: territory, population, distribution’, in: P. Bang, C.
Bayly and W. Scheidel (eds.), The Oxford
world history of empire, Volume 1, Oxford University Press: New York, 2021,
91-110
‘Ancient
Mediterranean city-state empires: Athens, Carthage, early Rome’, in: P.
Bang, C. Bayly and W. Scheidel (eds.), The
Oxford world history of empire, Volume 2, Oxford University Press: New
York, 2021, 137-157
‘Comparing
comparisons’, in: G. E. R. Lloyd and J. J. Zhao, with Q. Dong (eds.), Ancient Greece and China compared:
interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives, Cambridge University
Press: Cambridge, 2018, 40-58
‘Building
for the state: a world-historical perspective’, in: D. Allen, P. Christesen
and P. Millett (eds.), How to do things
with history: new approaches to ancient Greece, Oxford University Press:
New York, 2018, 237-259
[with Kyle Harper] ‘Roman
slavery and the idea of slave society’, in: N. Lenski and C. M. Cameron
(eds.), What is a slave society? The
practice of slavery in global perspective, Cambridge University Press: New
York, 2018, 86-105
‘Slavery
and forced labor in early China and the Roman world’, in: H. J. Kim, F. J.
Vervaet and S. F. Adali (eds.), Eurasian
empires in antiquity and the early Middle Ages: contacts and exchange between
the Graeco-Roman world, Inner Asia and China, Cambridge University Press:
Cambridge, 2017, 133-150
‘Measuring
Finley’s impact’, in: D. Jew, R. Osborne and M. Scott (eds.), M. I. Finley: an ancient historian and his
impact, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2016, 288-297
‘Rome, Tenochtitlan, and beyond: comparing empires
across space and time’, in: J. M. D. Pohl and C. L. Lyons (eds.), Altera Roma: art and empire from Mérida to
Mexico, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press: Los Angeles, 2016, 21-32
‘Comparing ancient worlds: comparative history as
comparative advantage’, in: Jinian Lei Haizong xiansheng danchen 110 zhounian:
zhongguo di si jie shijie gudaishi guoji xueshu yantaohui lunwen ji, Zhonghua shuju: Beijing, 2016, 187-193
[with Andrew Monson] ‘Studying
fiscal regimes’, in: A. Monson and W. Scheidel (eds.), Fiscal regimes and the political economy of premodern states,
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2015, 3-27
‘The
early Roman monarchy’, in: A. Monson and W. Scheidel (eds.), Fiscal regimes and the political economy of
premodern states, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2015, 229-257
‘State
revenue and expenditure in the Han and Roman empires’, in: W. Scheidel
(ed.), State power in ancient China and
Rome, Oxford University Press: New York, 2015, 150-180
‘Roman
real wages in context’, in: F. de Callataÿ (ed.), Quantifying the Greco-Roman economy and beyond, Edipuglia: Bari,
2014, 209-218
‘“Germs for Rome” 10 years after’, in: C.
Apicella, M.-L. Haack and F. Lerouxel (eds.), Les affaires de Monsieur Andreau: économie et société du monde romain,
Ausonius Éditions: Bordeaux 2014, 281-291
‘Disease
and death’, in: P. Erdkamp (ed.), The Cambridge companion to ancient
Rome, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge 2013, 45-59
‘Studying
the state’, in P. F. Bang and W. Scheidel (eds.), The Oxford handbook of the state in the ancient Near East and
Mediterranean, Oxford University Press: New York, 2013, 5-57
‘Approaching the Roman economy’, in
W. Scheidel (ed.), The Cambridge
companion to the Roman economy, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge,
2012, 1-21
‘Slavery’, in W. Scheidel (ed.), The Cambridge companion to the Roman economy,
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2012, 89-113
‘Physical well-being’, in W.
Scheidel (ed.), The Cambridge companion
to the Roman economy, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2012, 321-333
‘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
‘Roman wellbeing and the economic consequences of the Antonine Plague’, in: E. Lo Cascio (ed.), L’impatto della “peste antonina”, Edipuglia: Bari, 2012, 265-295 [with a contribution by John Sutherland]
‘Age and
health’, in: C. Riggs (ed.), The
Oxford handbook of Roman Egypt, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2012,
305-316
‘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:
‘From the ‘Great Convergence’ to the ‘First Great Divergence’:
Roman and Qin-Han state formation and its aftermath’, in: W. Scheidel
(ed.),
‘The monetary systems of the Han and Roman empires’, in: W.
Scheidel (ed.),
‘Sex and empire: a Darwinian perspective’, in: I. Morris and W.
Scheidel (eds.), The dynamics of ancient empires: state power from Assyria
to
‘The demographic background’, in: S. M. Hübner and D. M. Ratzan
(eds.), Growing up fatherless in antiquity, Cambridge University Press:
‘New ways of studying incomes in the Roman economy’, in: A. Bowman and A.
Wilson (eds.), Quantifying the Roman economy: methods and problems,
‘Demography and sociology’, in: G. Boys-Stones, B.
Graziosi and P. Vasunia (eds.), The
‘Population and demography’,
in: A. Erskine (ed.), A companion to ancient history, Wiley-Blackwell:
Malden MA, Oxford, and Chichester, 2009, 134-145 (updated German version
‘Demographie’ in: S. von Reden and K. Ruffing (eds.), Handbuch Antike Wirtschaft, De Gruyter: Berlin 2023, 209-226)
‘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:
‘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,
‘Demography’, in: W.
Scheidel, I. Morris and R. Saller (eds.), The
‘Marriage, families, and
survival: demographic aspects’, in: P. Erdkamp (ed.), A companion to the
Roman army, Blackwell:
‘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:
‘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:
‘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
‘Helot numbers: a simplified
model’, in: N. Luraghi and S. E. Alcock (eds.), Helots and their masters in
‘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
‘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:
‘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:
‘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:
‘The demography of Roman
slavery and manumission’, in: M. Bellancourt-Valdher and J.-N. Corvisier
(eds.), La démographie historique antique,
Artois Presses Université:
‘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:
‘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
‘Covid-19: effetti della pandemia su disuguaglianza e
ingiustizia,’ Consorzio per il festivalfilosofia:
Modena, 2023
‘Beyond
technology and wages: power and the history of inequality,’ in: IFS Deaton Review November 26, 2021.
Republished in: Oxford Open Economics 3
(2024), i212-i216.
‘Preisrede/Prize speech,’ in: W. Scheidel, D. Engels,
G. Morgenthaler and M. Otte, Walter
Scheidel, die moderne Geschichtskomparatistik und Oswald Spengler: Reden
anlässlich der Verleihung des Oswald-Spengler-Preises an Walter Scheidel, 13.
November 2020, Manuscriptum: Lüdinghausen and Neuruppin, 2021, 115-162.
‘Monogamy, bigamy,
and polygamy, III: Greco-Roman antiquity,’ in: Encyclopedia of the bible and its reception, De Gruyter: Berlin,
2021
‘The coronavirus
pandemic and the future of economic inequality,’ in: Social Research 87 (2020), 293-295
‘Inequality:
total war as a great leveler,’ in: VoxEU
September 2, 2019, and Stephen Broadberry and Mark Harrison, eds., The economics of the Second World War:
seventy-five years on, CEPR Press: London, 2020, 100-106; abridged German
version ‘Der
Zweite Weltkrieg als grosser Gleichmacher,’ Ökonomenstimme October 9, 2019
‘Inequality:
from the Great War to the Great Compression,’ in: Stephen Broadberry and
Mark Harrison, eds., The economics of the
Great War: a centennial perspective, CEPR Press: London, 2018, 145-152
Afterword to ‘On the probable age structure of the Roman
population’ and ‘Graveyards for historians’, in: K. Hopkins, Sociological studies in Roman history,
edited by C. Kelly, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2018, 154-159
‘Historical demography in
the very long run: how long is very long?’, in: K. Matthis, S. Hin, J. Kok and
H. Matsuo (eds.), The future of
historical demography: upside down and inside out, Acco: Leuven, 2016,
19-21
‘Demographie’, in: H. Heinen
(ed.), Handwörterbuch der antiken
Sklaverei, CD-ROM-Lieferung I-IV, Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart, 2012
‘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
‘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
‘Foreword’, in: M. I. Finley
(ed.), Classical slavery, Frank Cass:
‘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:
‘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
News media and magazine
articles
‘L’histoire des inégalités vue à vol d’oiseau,’ in: Cités 89, 2022, 21-25
‘The
road from Rome,’ in: Aeon April
15, 2021 (Czech translation in: Deník N
June 11, 2021)
‘After Covid,’ in: Liberties 1.2, Winter 2021, 217-238
‘Beyond
enlightened prudence and reckless abandon,’ in: Chronicle of Higher Education June 18, 2020
‘Don’t let
this crisis go to waste,’ in: Noema
June 8, 2020
‘The
Spanish Flu didn’t wreck the global economy,’ in: Foreign Affairs May 28, 2020 (Week six winner of the prize contest “Applying
history to clarify the COVID-19 challenge,” Stanton Foundation, June 2,
2020)
‘Waiting
for the great leveller,’ in: Standpoint
May 22, 2020 (online) & May/June 2020, 25-26 (print)
‘Inequality
and instability in the time of COVID-19,’ in: Inference May 18, 2020
‘Does
COVID-19 mean socialism or social collapse?’ in: Spectator USA May 6, 2020 & Spectator
Australia May 7, 2020
‘Why
the wealthy fear pandemics,’ in: New
York Times April 9, 2020 (online) & April 19, 2020 (print)
‘Disuguaglianza
e violenza nella storia,’ in: il
Mulino 1/2020, March 18, 2020
‘What did the Romans ever do for
us?,’ in: Spectator USA October
14, 2019
‘Kriege nivellieren
Gesellschaften – wie gelingt friedliche Gleichmacherei?’ WirtschaftsWoche 38 (2018), 44-45
‘La
violence réduit les inégalités, enseigne l’histoire,’ in: Le Monde December 1, 2017
‘Die
vier apokalyptischen Reiter der Nivellierung,’ in: Schweizer Monat 1051, November 2017, 12-17
‘The
bloodstained leveller,’ in: Aeon
June 19, 2017
‘The
only conquerors of inequality are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,’ in:
PBS Newshour (“Making Sen$e”) June
16, 2017
‘Only
cataclysm can cure inequality,’ in: Boston
Globe June 8, 2017
‘How
deprivation and the threat of violence made Sweden equal,’ in: Zócalo Public Square April 19, 2017
‘Inequality
has historically been leveled only by terrible violence and upheaval’, in: Huffington Post February 23, 2017
‘The
only thing, historically, that’s curbed inequality: catastrophe’, in: The Atlantic February 21, 2017
‘What
tames inequality? Violence and mayhem’, in: Chronicle of Higher Education February 2, 2017
Online-only papers and
websites
‘Inequality reduction between tragedy and
progress: The Great Leveler and recent scholarship, 2017-2024,’ Working
paper, August 28, 2024 (www.academia.com, www.researchgate.net, www.ssrn.com)
‘Citation scores for Greco-Roman
historians in North America, fall 2022,’ Working paper, October 2022
(www.academia.edu, zenodo.org)
‘Farewell to standards? A response to Richard Hodges,’ Working Paper, May 2021 (www.academia.edu, zenodo.org, www.researchgate.net) (revised version ‘Confronting divergence,’ Working paper, September 2021, zenodo.org; summary ‘In defense of big history: a reply to Richard Hodges,’ in: Journal of Roman Archaeology 34 (2021), 998-999)
‘Citation scores for Greco-Roman historians in North America, 2019,’ Working paper, September 2019 (with a January 2021 update) (www.academia.edu, zenodo.org)
‘Empires of inequality:
ancient China and Rome,’ Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, Version
1.0, August 2016 (www.ssrn.com,
www.academia.edu)
‘Death and the city:
ancient Rome and beyond’, Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics,
Version 1.0, May 2015 (www.ssrn.com, www.academia.edu)
‘Orbis: the Stanford
geospatial network model of the Roman world’, Princeton/Stanford Working Papers
in Classics, Version 1.0, May 2015 (www.ssrn.com,
www.academia.edu, http://orbis.stanford.edu/assets/
Scheidel_64.pdf)
‘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)
‘Greco-Roman sex ratios
and femicide in comparative perspective,’ Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, Version 1.0, January
2010
‘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
‘Comparative history as comparative advantage:
‘Republics between hegemony
and empire: how ancient city-states built empires and the
‘Military commitments and
political bargaining in ancient
Co-founder, Princeton/Stanford Working
Papers in Classics, 2005
‘Prices and other monetary
valuations in Roman history: ancient literary evidence and modern scholarship’,
no date, www.stanford.edu/~scheidel/NumIntro.htm
Book reviews
Review essays
‘Resetting history’s dial? A
critique of The dawn of everything’
[review essay on: D. Graeber and D.
Wengrow, The dawn of everything: a new
history of humanity, New York 2021], in: Cliodynamics Special Issue (2022), Review 4, 1-27 (French
translation: ‘Sur
l’idéalisme de David Graeber et David Wengrow,’ in: Le Partage October 15, 2022)
‘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,
‘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: E. H. Seland, A global
history of the ancient world: Asia, Europe and Africa before Islam, London
2022; R. Schulz, Welten im Aufbruch: eine Globalgeschichte der Antike,
Stuttgart 2025, for: Journal of Roman Studies (in preparation)
Review of: J.-M. Robinson, ‘Blood is thicker than water:’ non-royal
consanguineous marriage in ancient Egypt. An exploration of economic and
biological outcomes, Oxford 2020, in: Review
of Biblical Literature December 29, 2023
Review of: T. Brughmans and A. Wilson
(eds.), Simulating Roman economies:
theories, methods, and computational models, Oxford 2022, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review
2023.07.11
Review of: P. Frankopan, The earth transformed: an untold history,
London 2023, in: Financial Times
February 25, 2023
Review of: D. Graeber and D. Wengrow, The dawn of everything: a new history of
humanity, New York 2021, in: Foreign
Affairs 101.3 (May/June 2022), 187-193
Review of: P. Dwyer and J. Damousi
(eds.), The Cambridge world history of
violence, 4 vols., Cambridge 2020, in: H-Albion
July 2021
Review of: H. Beck and G. Vankeerberghen (eds.), Rulers and ruled in
ancient Greece, Rome, and China, Cambridge 2021, in: Classical Review 71 (2021), 432-435
Review of: R. B. Ford,
Rome, China, and the barbarians:
ethnographic traditions and the transformation of empires, Cambridge 2020,
in: Classical Review 71 (2021),
205-207
Review of: M. MacMillan, War: how conflict shaped us, New York 2020, in: Michigan War Studies Review, December 9, 2020
Review of: C. Ando and S. Richardson (eds.), Ancient states and infrastructural power: Europe, Asia, and America, Philadelphia 2017, in: Journal of World History 31 (2020), 447-449
Review of: L. E Tacoma, Moving Romans: migration to Rome in the Principate, Oxford 2016, in: Journal of Roman Archaeology 32 (2019), 683-689
Review of: J. C. Scott, Against the grain: a deep history of the earliest states, New Haven 2017, in: Financial Times October 7, 2017
Review of: P. T. Hoffman, Why did Europe conquer the world?, Princeton 2015, in: Montreal Review April 2017
Review of: P. Temin, The Roman market economy, Princeton 2013, in: Journal of Roman Studies 104 (2014), 293-294
Review of: A. Bowman and A. Wilson (eds.), Settlement, urbanization, and population, Oxford 2012, in: Mnemosyne 67 (2014), 1047-1050
Review of: L. de Ligt, Peasants, citizens and soldiers: studies in the demographic history of Roman Italy 225 BC – AD 100, Cambridge 2012; A. Launaro, Peasants and slaves: the rural population of Roman Italy (200 BC to AD 100), Cambridge 2011, in: Journal of Roman Archaeology 26 (2013), 678-687
[with Joseph Manning] Review of:
W. Clarysse and D. J. Thompson, Counting the people in Hellenistic
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,
Review of: A. M. Eckstein, Mediterranean
anarchy, interstate war, and the rise of
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,
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 della ‘familia’, 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,
Review
of: F. Hinard (ed.), La mort au quotidien
dans le monde romain,
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,
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,
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