[decimon]

Horde hoard ping.

[Oratam]

Ancient Rome's Real Population Revealed

finally

[Liberty1970]

I'm really skeptical. This is not a robust methodology and there are a lot of opportunities for bias/skewing in the basic data, analysis and reporting.

I certainly agree that Rome eventually suffered catastrophic population decline, but in the 1st century or earlier? Come on. And a total population of 5 million would be dramatically too low to support the number of legions they maintained in the field, especially in a pre-modern economy that was still agragarian in nature, no matter how refined.

Am I misunderstanding this somehow? The city of Rome itself had at minimum a population of several hundred thousand, with serious estimates ranging upwards to a million or more (and historical claims up to 7 million, I believe, though I think those can be discounted). That would only be a small portion of the total, given the presence of other large cities like Ephesus, Antioch and Alexandria with 6-figure populations each. And yet most people would still have lived in villages or farms, not in the larger towns and cities that were so plentiful at this time.

[LonePalm]

If you want a reliable measure of population, determine the amount of fresh water coming into the city on a daily basis.

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(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
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[SunkenCiv]

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[edcoil]

maybe when he opened the wheat and gave away free bread the illegals came in and destroyed the place.

[potlatch]

There was a very interesting story in my newspaper recently about Nero’s revolving dining room that was recently found by archaeologists.

This link doesn't tell it but I read that there were 3 giant stone balls that supposedly were turned by a water flow and the wooden platform continually revolved.

LINK

[The Comedian]

The first century B.C. was one of the most culturally rich

That explains the moral turpitude and the beginning of the cultural end.

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Smiling takes 6.
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