Just yesterday when I was visiting my parents house, I pulled out my copy of The Population of Europe by Massimo Livi Bacci, but I seem to have not gotten it packed and brought home :-/
Anyway, I think that only covers 1000-2000 AD.
Wikipedia actually has numbers for the Roman censuses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censor_(ancient_Rome) I assume those are the numbers of free, male heads of household, which is what the Romans totaled. They also collected enough other information to calculate the total population of the city, but that you'd probably have to go digging for.
I sort of doubt the ancient Greeks did any censuses, but they might have gotten counted in one of the province censuses that the Romans did occasionally. You could try following up on the sources on the Wikipedia page.
Are you looking for how dense cities were, or how dense large regions were?
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Date: 2010-02-18 08:47 pm (UTC)Anyway, I think that only covers 1000-2000 AD.
Wikipedia actually has numbers for the Roman censuses:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censor_(ancient_Rome)
I assume those are the numbers of free, male heads of household, which is what the Romans totaled. They also collected enough other information to calculate the total population of the city, but that you'd probably have to go digging for.
I sort of doubt the ancient Greeks did any censuses, but they might have gotten counted in one of the province censuses that the Romans did occasionally. You could try following up on the sources on the Wikipedia page.
Are you looking for how dense cities were, or how dense large regions were?