The population of ancient Rome
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3371622 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Glenn R Storey (University of Iowa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 274 |
| Pages | 966-978 |
| Publication date | 1997-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003598x00085859 |
| OpenAlex | W2112050117 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 64 |
| References cited | 58 |
What was the population of imperial Rome? City blocks in Pompeii and Ostia are sufficiently well explored that a fair estimate of population density can now be arrived at. That peoples the city of ancient Rome with roughly 450,000 inhabitants, within the known population and density range of pre-industrial and modern urban centres
Ancient history · Archaeology · Geography · Population · Population density · Range (aeronautics · Sociology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Demography · Engineering · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Water management and technologies
Cities and Urbanism in Prehispanic Mesoamerica
Malaria and Rome
The Early Roman Empire
The Early Roman Empire
The Early Roman Empire
Cemeteries and catacombs
Law and Economic Institutions
Classical Greece
Civic rituals and political spaces in republican and imperial Rome
Early Iron Age Greece
The city in Ruins
Marriages, families, households
Early Rome and Italy
Hellenistic Greece and Western Asia Minor
Riots
Household and Gender
The Late Republic
(Sub)urban surroundings
Roma Aeterna
Immigration and cosmopolitanization
‘Romans, play on!’
Slavesand freedmen
Archaic Greece
The Early Roman Empire
Structuring time
Water supply, drainage and watermills
Sex and the city
The urban topography of Rome
Classical Greece
The Transition to Late Antiquity
Classical Greece
Regions and neighbourhoods
Traffic and land transportation in and near Rome
Counting bricks and stacking wood
Roman Pottery in the Archaeological Record
The Persian Near East
The emergence of the city
The food supply of the capital
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome
Imperial Rome
The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World
The Naming of Parts
Bringing the Country to Town
Scaling up
A multidisciplinary approach to investigate the osteobiography of the Roman Imperial population from Muracciola Torresina (Palestrina, Rome, Italy)
Diet and collapse
A multidisciplinary approach to investigate the osteobiography of the Roman Imperial population from Muracciola Torresina (Palestrina, Rome, Italy)
Representing the operation and evolution of ancient Piraeus’ water supply system
A harbour–canal at Portus
An Age Old Problem? Estimating the Impact of Dementia on Past Human Populations
Scaling in Pompeii
Reconstructing population size in a Romano-British colonia
The Christian sarcophagus population of Rome
The extended metropolis
Estimation of the thickness of anthropogenic deposits in historical urban centres
L'état présent de la démograhie historique antique
Methods of Palaeodemography
Beyond Iron Age ‘towns’
Archaeological Approaches to Market Exchange in Ancient Societies
Demography and the Palaeolithic Archaeological Record
Latitude, urbanization, age, and sex as risk factors for vitamin D deficiency disease in the Roman Empire
The importance to archaeology of undertaking and presenting experimental research
The collective logic of pre-modern cities
The Origin and Spread of Leprosy
Discovering the Roman family
Ancient history
The slave systems of Greek and Roman antiquity.
Cities of ancient Greece and Italy
The Valley of Mexico
Slavery and Society at Rome
Teotihuacan
Slums, Sanitation, and Mortality in the Roman World
European Urbanization, 1500-1800
Space, Geography, and Politics in the Early Roman Empire
Familia Caesaris
The Basin of Mexico
European urbanization 1500–1800
The Size of the Roman Population
Late Ancient and Medieval Population
The Mycenae Tablets II
A History of Rome down to the Reign of Constantine
Greek and Roman Slavery
Roman Pompeii
Daily Life in Ancient Rome. The People and the City at the Height of the Empire
Greek and Roman Slavery
The Roman Empire
The Forty Thousand Citizens of Ephesus
The Economy and Society of Pompeii
Tombstones and Roman Family Relations in the Principate
Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity
The Census in the First Century B.C
Roman Census Statistics from 225 to 28 B. C
Ordo Populusque Pompeianus
Architectural implications of daily life in ancient Tollán, Hidalgo, Mexico
"Familia, Domus", and the Roman Conception of the Family
Population and Metropolis
Settlement History and the Classic Collapse at Copan
Further refinement of formulae for determining population from floor area
Pre-Columbian Population History in the Maya Lowlands
Recherches sur la population et la superficie des cites remontant a la periode gallo-romaine
Evaluating the Construction Sequence and Population of Pot Creek Pueblo, Northern New Mexico
Bioarchaeological Evidence for a Spanish-Native American Conflict in the Sixteenth-Century Southeast
Estimating Population at Ancient Military Sites
Family Size, Prehistoric Population Estimates, and the Ancient Maya
| Unique citing works | 64 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,14 |
| Citation span | 1970 - 2023 (54) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 64 |