Texts, contexts, subtexts and interpretative frameworks. Beyond the parochial and toward (dynamic) modeling of the Ptolemaic state and the Ptolemaic economy
My concern in this paper is the historical interpretation of the Greek and demotic documentary papyri of the Ptolemaic period, the role of Archaeology in the context of Ptolemaic economic history, and the application of social science theory towards an understanding of Ptolemaic Egypt.
The eighth-century revolution
The eighth-century revolution Ian Morris (Stanford University) Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics: December (2005) Abstract Through most of the 20th century classicists saw…
The growth of Greek cities in the first millennium BC
The growth of Greek cities in the first millennium BC Ian Morris Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics: December (2005) Abstract In this paper I…
The collapse and regeneration of complex society in Greece, 1500-500 BC
The collapse and regeneration of complex society in Greece, 1500-500 BC Ian Morris Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics: December (2005) Abstract Greece between 1500…
The demography of Roman state formation in Italy
This paper seeks to provide a basic demographic framework for the study of integrative processes in Italy during the Republican period.
Roman funerary commemoration and the age at first marriage
This paper offers a critical assessment of the debate about the customary age at first marriage of men and women in Roman Italy and the western provinces of the early Roman empire.
Population and demography
This paper provides a general overview of Greco-Roman population history.
Sex and empire: a Darwinian perspective
This paper draws on evolutionary psychology to elucidate ultimate causation in imperial state formation and predatory exploitation in antiquity and beyond. Differential access to the means of reproduction is shown to have been a key feature of early imperial systems.
A model of real income growth in Roman Italy
The economic impact of Roman imperialism on the mass of Italy’s population is still only poorly understood: who benefited, and how?
The Roman slave supply
This survey of the scale and sources of the Roman slave supply will be published in Keith Bradley and Paul Cartledge (eds.), The Cambridge world history of slavery, 1: The ancient Mediterranean world.