Malaria and Rome: A History of Malaria in Ancient Italy

Malaria and Rome is the first comprehensive book on the history of malaria in Roman Italy. Aimed at an interdisciplinary readership, it explores the evolution and ecology of malaria, its medical and demographic effects on human populations in antiquity, its social and economic effects, the human responses to it, and the human interpretations of it.


Author: Robert Sallares
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/07/2002
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 8.72h x 6.32w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9780199248506

About the Author

Robert Sallares is Research Fellow in Biomolecular Sciences, UMIST.

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