The Uncertain Past: Probability in Ancient History

ISBN-13: 9781009100656 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 348 str.

Lavan, Myles

Opis

Showcases a powerful new approach to uncertainty in ancient history, using techniques from the social and natural sciences.

Recenzje

'… the volume as a whole is to be commended, and I recommend it both to historians of the ancient Mediterranean … as well as to economic and social historians from other areas … The editors make a compelling and clear argument (directly and through their contributors) that probabilistic methods deserve further use, and are more accessible than one may initially think: I can't help but find myself agreeing.' Thomas Laver

Spis treści

1. Probabilistic modelling in ancient history Daniel Jew and Myles Lavan; Part I. Uncertainty: 2. Assessing the scale of property confiscation in the ancient Greek world Emily Mackil; 3. Senators and senatorial wealth at Pompeii: reconstructing the local wealth distribution Bart Danon; 4. The Roman coinage under the Antonines revisited: an economy of silver, not gold Gilles Bransbourg; Part II. Variability and Missing Data: 5. Children and their impact on family finances in Roman Egypt Paul V. Kelly; 6. The financial sustainability of grain funds: a model-based approach using Monte Carlo simulation N. Solonakis, A. Toure and M. Elhouderi; 7. New approaches to the urban population and urbanization rate of the Roman Empire, AD 1 to 200 J. W. Hanson; 8. Afterword Bart Danon, Daniel Jew and Myles Lavan.