That sounds like such a cool topic! I am shockingly ignorant about archaeology, so I have no idea how gage the health of a population from archaeological data -- how are you going about it?

I admit that, as a literature person, I mostly work with the elite and their texts (Some days, I have smart ways of justifying it; other days, I don't), but one can either use Suetonius uncritically as a source for "history" or one can use him to, say, think about different genres of historiography and about the reporter's access to authority. And one of those s