Хорошим введением в проблему демографии является работа: Frier В. Roman Demography // Life, Death and Entertainment in the Roman Empire. Ed. D. Potter, D. Mattingly. 1999; см. также: Beloch К. Die Bevolkemng de Griechisch-romischen Welt. Leipzig, 1886; Bagnall R., Frier B. The Demography of Roman Egypt. Cambridge, 1994; Parkin T. Demography and Roman Society. Baltimore, 1992, Schiedel W. Measuring Sex, Age, and Death in the Roman Empire: Exploration in Ancient Demography. Portsmouth, 1996, и Rathbone Z., Villages, Land and Population in Graeco-Roman Egypt // Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society. Vol. 36. 1990. P. 103-142.