Oxford University Press on julkaissut Christer Bruunin monografian ’Ostia by the Sea – Society, Population, and Identities in Rome’s Port’. Julkaisijan kuvaus kirjasta:
1) Synthesizes a wide variety of sources—consulting existing relevant scholarship in English, Italian, French, German, and Spanish—for a unique perspective on what life was like in one of the best known and most important ancient Roman towns
2)Provides a history of Ostia’s population during a period of approximately 300 years (50 BCE-250 CE), with many new translations, interpretations, and conclusions from a leading expert in the field
3)Offers a penetrating analysis of Ostia’s various social strata—from the dominating elite to the unusually large role played by women to successful, business-minded freed slaves to ordinary artisans and workers, many of whom were immigrants