Luuk de Ligt, Ph.D (1993), Free University of Amsterdam, is Professor of Ancient History at Leiden University. He is the author of Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers: Studies in the Demographic History of Roman Italy 225 BC-AD 100 (Cambridge 2012) and has published extensively on Roman economic history, Roman law and Roman demography. Laurens E. Tacoma, Ph.D. (2003), Leiden University, is Lecturer of Ancient History at that university. He is the author of Fragile Hierarchies: The Urban Elites of Third Century Egypt (Leiden 2006) and has published various articles on Roman economic history and Roman social history.

• Acknowledgements ... viiList of Figures and Tables ... viiiList of Abbreviations ... xList of Contributors ... xiv1 Approaching Migration in the Early Roman Empire ... 1Luuk de Ligt and Laurens E. Tacoma2 The Impact of Migration on the Demographic Profile of the City of Rome: A Reassessment ... 23Elio Lo Cascio3 Seasonal Labour and Rural–Urban Migration in Roman Italy ... 33Paul Erdkamp4 Food Distributions and Immigration in Imperial Rome ... 50Seth G. Bernard5 Migration in Early-Imperial Italy: Herculaneum and Rome Compared ... 72Peter Garnsey and Luuk de Ligt6 Labour Mobility in the Roman World: A Case Study of Mines in Iberia ... 95Claire Holleran7 State-Organised Mobility in the Roman Empire: Legionaries and Auxiliaries ... 138Saskia T. Roselaar8 Peasants into Soldiers: Recruitment and Military Mobility in the Early Roman Empire ... 158Tatiana Ivleva9 Tracing Familial Mobility: Female and Child Migrants in the Roman West ... 176Christer Bruun10 Isotopes and Mobility in the Ancient Roman World ... 205Tracy L. Prowse11 Revisiting Urban Graveyard Theory: Migrant Flows in Hellenistic and Roman Athens ... 234Saskia Hin12 Migration in Roman Egypt: Problems and Possibilities ... 264Colin Adams13 Mobile Women in P.Oxy. and the Port Cities of Roman Egypt: Tracing Women’s Travel Behaviour in Papyrological Sources ... 285Lien Foubert14 Human Mobility in the Roman Near East: Patterns and Motives ... 305Andrea Zerbini15 Moving Epigrams: Migration and Mobility in the Greek East ... 345Laurens E. Tacoma and Rolf A. Tybout16 Dead Men Walking: The Repatriation of Mortal Remains ... 390Rolf A. Tybout17 Movers and Stayers ... 438Greg WoolfReferences ... 463Index ... 513

Luuk de Ligt, Ph.D (1993), Free University of Amsterdam, is Professor of Ancient History at Leiden University. He is the author of Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers: Studies in the Demographic History of Roman Italy 225 BC-AD 100 (Cambridge 2012) and has published extensively on Roman economic history, Roman law and Roman demography. Laurens E. Tacoma, Ph.D. (2003), Leiden University, is Lecturer of Ancient History at that university. He is the author of Fragile Hierarchies: The Urban Elites of Third Century Egypt (Leiden 2006) and has published various articles on Roman economic history and Roman social history.

• Acknowledgements ... viiList of Figures and Tables ... viiiList of Abbreviations ... xList of Contributors ... xiv1 Approaching Migration in the Early Roman Empire ... 1Luuk de Ligt and Laurens E. Tacoma2 The Impact of Migration on the Demographic Profile of the City of Rome: A Reassessment ... 23Elio Lo Cascio3 Seasonal Labour and Rural–Urban Migration in Roman Italy ... 33Paul Erdkamp4 Food Distributions and Immigration in Imperial Rome ... 50Seth G. Bernard5 Migration in Early-Imperial Italy: Herculaneum and Rome Compared ... 72Peter Garnsey and Luuk de Ligt6 Labour Mobility in the Roman World: A Case Study of Mines in Iberia ... 95Claire Holleran7 State-Organised Mobility in the Roman Empire: Legionaries and Auxiliaries ... 138Saskia T. Roselaar8 Peasants into Soldiers: Recruitment and Military Mobility in the Early Roman Empire ... 158Tatiana Ivleva9 Tracing Familial Mobility: Female and Child Migrants in the Roman West ... 176Christer Bruun10 Isotopes and Mobility in the Ancient Roman World ... 205Tracy L. Prowse11 Revisiting Urban Graveyard Theory: Migrant Flows in Hellenistic and Roman Athens ... 234Saskia Hin12 Migration in Roman Egypt: Problems and Possibilities ... 264Colin Adams13 Mobile Women in P.Oxy. and the Port Cities of Roman Egypt: Tracing Women’s Travel Behaviour in Papyrological Sources ... 285Lien Foubert14 Human Mobility in the Roman Near East: Patterns and Motives ... 305Andrea Zerbini15 Moving Epigrams: Migration and Mobility in the Greek East ... 345Laurens E. Tacoma and Rolf A. Tybout16 Dead Men Walking: The Repatriation of Mortal Remains ... 390Rolf A. Tybout17 Movers and Stayers ... 438Greg WoolfReferences ... 463Index ... 513

Luuk de Ligt, Ph.D (1993), Free University of Amsterdam, is Professor of Ancient History at Leiden University. He is the author of Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers: Studies in the Demographic History of Roman Italy 225 BC-AD 100 (Cambridge 2012) and has published extensively on Roman economic history, Roman law and Roman demography. Laurens E. Tacoma, Ph.D. (2003), Leiden University, is Lecturer of Ancient History at that university. He is the author of Fragile Hierarchies: The Urban Elites of Third Century Egypt (Leiden 2006) and has published various articles on Roman economic history and Roman social history.

• Acknowledgements ... viiList of Figures and Tables ... viiiList of Abbreviations ... xList of Contributors ... xiv1 Approaching Migration in the Early Roman Empire ... 1Luuk de Ligt and Laurens E. Tacoma2 The Impact of Migration on the Demographic Profile of the City of Rome: A Reassessment ... 23Elio Lo Cascio3 Seasonal Labour and Rural–Urban Migration in Roman Italy ... 33Paul Erdkamp4 Food Distributions and Immigration in Imperial Rome ... 50Seth G. Bernard5 Migration in Early-Imperial Italy: Herculaneum and Rome Compared ... 72Peter Garnsey and Luuk de Ligt6 Labour Mobility in the Roman World: A Case Study of Mines in Iberia ... 95Claire Holleran7 State-Organised Mobility in the Roman Empire: Legionaries and Auxiliaries ... 138Saskia T. Roselaar8 Peasants into Soldiers: Recruitment and Military Mobility in the Early Roman Empire ... 158Tatiana Ivleva9 Tracing Familial Mobility: Female and Child Migrants in the Roman West ... 176Christer Bruun10 Isotopes and Mobility in the Ancient Roman World ... 205Tracy L. Prowse11 Revisiting Urban Graveyard Theory: Migrant Flows in Hellenistic and Roman Athens ... 234Saskia Hin12 Migration in Roman Egypt: Problems and Possibilities ... 264Colin Adams13 Mobile Women in P.Oxy. and the Port Cities of Roman Egypt: Tracing Women’s Travel Behaviour in Papyrological Sources ... 285Lien Foubert14 Human Mobility in the Roman Near East: Patterns and Motives ... 305Andrea Zerbini15 Moving Epigrams: Migration and Mobility in the Greek East ... 345Laurens E. Tacoma and Rolf A. Tybout16 Dead Men Walking: The Repatriation of Mortal Remains ... 390Rolf A. Tybout17 Movers and Stayers ... 438Greg WoolfReferences ... 463Index ... 513