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Book Synopsis An Edition of Cato's De Agricultura by : Marcus Porcius Cato
Download or read book An Edition of Cato's De Agricultura written by Marcus Porcius Cato and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cato the Censor written by A. E. Astin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford Scholarly Classics is a new series that makes available again great academic works from the archives of Oxford University Press. Reissued in uniform series design, the reissues will enable libraries, scholars, and students to gain fresh access to some of the finest scholarship of the last century.
Book Synopsis On agriculture by : Marcus Porcius Cato
Download or read book On agriculture written by Marcus Porcius Cato and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Siren Feasts written by Andrew Dalby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cheese, wine, honey and olive oil - four of Greece's best known contributions to culinary culture - were already well known four thousand years ago. Remains of honeycombs and of cheeses have been found under the volcanic ash of the Santorini eruption of 1627 BC. Over the millennia, Greek food diversified and absorbed neighbouring traditions, yet retained its own distinctive character. In Siren Feasts, Andrew Dalby provides the first serious social history of Greek food. He begins with the tunny fishers of the neolithic age, and traces the story through the repertoire of classical Greece, the reputations of Lydia for luxury and of Sicily and South Italy for sybaritism, to the Imperial synthesis of varying traditions, with a look forward to the Byzantine cuisine and the development of the modern Greek menu. The apples of the Hesperides turn out to be lemons, and great favour attaches to Byzantine biscuits. Fully documented and comprehensively illustrated, scholarly yet immensely readable, Siren Feasts demonstrates the social construction placed upon different types of food at different periods (was fish a luxury item in classical Athens, though disdained by Homeric heroes?). It places diet in an economic and agricultural context; and it provides a history of mentalities in relation to a subject which no human being can ignore.
Book Synopsis The Fate of Family Farming by : Ronald Jager
Download or read book The Fate of Family Farming written by Ronald Jager and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penetrating look at the condition of family farming--yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Book Synopsis Masters of Roman Prose from Cato to Apuleius by : Michael von Albrecht
Download or read book Masters of Roman Prose from Cato to Apuleius written by Michael von Albrecht and published by Arca Classical and Medieval Te. This book was released on 1989 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this commented anthology of Latin prose, Michael von Albrecht selects texts from a span of Roman literature covering four centuries. A summary of the contents will indicate its range and variety: M. Porcius Cato (the preface to De agricultura , a passage from the speech for the Rhodians of 167 B.C., and a section from the Origines ); republican oratory (C. Gracchus, from De legibus promulgatis of 122 B.C. and Cicero from In Verrem II ); Caesar as orator and historian; two passages of Sallust; a comparison of Claudius Quadrigarius and Livy as historiographers; philosophical texts from Cicero and the Younger Seneca; and chapters on Petronius, Tacitus, Pliny the Younger, and Apuleius. The method of the book is practical, based on actual interpretation of specific texts rather than on literary theory (ancient or modern). Each text (printed first in Latin and then in English) is followed by a detailed and flexible discussion, somewhere between essay and commentary. No set pattern is imposed - rather the nature of the text governs the shape of its analysis - but Professor von Albrecht's vivid scholarly exposition covers most dimensions of the art of Latin prose-writing. The book's variety of texts and close treatment of specific Latin passages make it an ideal coursebook for the study of Latin prose. But behind its accessibility lies scholarship of the highest order: Professor von Albrecht's exemplary erudition reveals itself in the extensive annotation underpinning his main text; and researchers in any of the fields covered by Latin prose-writers - philosophy, politics, history, letters, practical handbooks, entertainment - will find this book a valuable resource. This book was originally published in German ( Meister römischer Prosa von Cato bis Apuleius , 1971). It has been accurately and sympathetically translated by Neil Adkin.
Book Synopsis Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture by : Jason König
Download or read book Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture written by Jason König and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 871 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did ancient scientific and knowledge-ordering writers make their work authoritative? This book answers that question for a wide range of ancient disciplines, from mathematics, medicine, architecture and agriculture, through to law, historiography and philosophy - focusing mainly, but not exclusively, on the literature of the Roman Empire. It draws attention to habits that these different fields had in common, while also showing how individual texts and authors manipulated standard techniques of self-authorisation in distinctive ways. It stresses the importance of competitive and assertive styles of self-presentation, and also examines some of the pressures that pulled in the opposite direction by looking at authors who chose to acknowledge the limitations of their own knowledge or resisted close identification with narrow versions of expert identity. A final chapter by Sir Geoffrey Lloyd offers a comparative account of scientific authority and expertise in ancient Chinese, Indian and Mesopotamian culture.
Book Synopsis Cato, the Censor, on Farming by : Marcus Porcius Cato
Download or read book Cato, the Censor, on Farming written by Marcus Porcius Cato and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis De Agricultura by : Marcus Porcius Cato
Download or read book De Agricultura written by Marcus Porcius Cato and published by Prospect Books (UK). This book was released on 1998 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction places the man and his work in context and discusses specific problems of textural arrangement and organization and agricultural practice. There are several drawings to aid appreciation of Cato’s descriptions of buildings and equipment. A book of instruction about the cultivation of vines, olives and fruit, the management of slaves and contract labour, the rituals consequent on ownership and even cookery for humans and the pharmacy. Because of its date, the 2nd century BC, it is a particularly important resource for students of Latin and of early Roman society.
Book Synopsis Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella On Agriculture (Volume II) by : Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella
Download or read book Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella On Agriculture (Volume II) written by Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis On Agriculture by : Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella
Download or read book On Agriculture written by Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Columella (Lucius Iunius Moderatus) of Gades (Cadiz) lived in the reigns of the first emperors to about 70 CE. He moved early in life to Italy where he owned farms and lived near Rome. It is probable that he did military service in Syria and Cilicia and that he died at Tarentum. Columella's On Agriculture (De Re Rustica) is the most comprehensive, systematic and detailed of Roman agricultural works. Book I covers choice of farming site; water supply; buildings; staff. II: Ploughing; fertilising; care of crops. III, IV, V: Cultivation, grafting and pruning of fruit trees, vines, and olives. VI: Acquisition, breeding, and rearing of oxen, horses, and mules; veterinary medicine. VII: Sheep, goats, pigs, and dogs. VIII: Poultry; fish ponds. IX: Bee-keeping. X (in hexameter poetry): Gardening. XI: Duties of the overseer of a farm; calendar for farm work; more on gardening. XII: Duties of the overseer's wife; manufacture of wines; pickling; preserving. There is also a separate treatise, Trees (De Arboribus), on vines and olives and various trees, perhaps part of an otherwise lost work written before On Agriculture
Book Synopsis Rome's Last Citizen by : Rob Goodman
Download or read book Rome's Last Citizen written by Rob Goodman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Marcus Cato the Younger -- Rome's bravest statesman, an aristocratic soldier, a Stoic philosopher, and staunch defender of sacred Roman tradition -- is rich with resonances for current politics and contemporary notions of freedom.
Book Synopsis Farmers and Agriculture in the Roman Economy by : David B. Hollander
Download or read book Farmers and Agriculture in the Roman Economy written by David B. Hollander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often viewed as self-sufficient, Roman farmers actually depended on markets to supply them with a wide range of goods and services, from metal tools to medical expertise. However, the nature, extent, and implications of their market interactions remain unclear. This monograph uses literary and archaeological evidence to examine how farmers – from smallholders to the owners of large estates – bought and sold, lent and borrowed, and cooperated as well as competed in the Roman economy. A clearer picture of the relationship between farmers and markets allows us to gauge their collective impact on, and exposure to, macroeconomic phenomena such as monetization and changes in the level and nature of demand for goods and labor. After considering the demographic and environmental context of Italian agriculture, the author explores three interrelated questions: what goods and services did farmers purchase; how did farmers acquire the money with which to make those purchases; and what factors drove farmers’ economic decisions? This book provides a portrait of the economic world of the Roman farmer in late Republican and early Imperial Italy.
Book Synopsis An Anthology of Informal Latin, 200 BC–AD 900 by : J. N. Adams
Download or read book An Anthology of Informal Latin, 200 BC–AD 900 written by J. N. Adams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 1053 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains over fifty passages of Latin from 200 BC to AD 900, each with translation and linguistic commentary. It is not intended as an elementary reader (though suitable for university courses), but as an illustrative history of Latin covering more than a millennium, with almost every century represented. Conventional histories cite constructions out of context, whereas this work gives a sense of the period, genre, stylistic aims and idiosyncrasies of specific passages. 'Informal' texts, particularly if they portray talk, reflect linguistic variety and change better than texts adhering to classicising norms. Some of the texts are recent discoveries or little known. Writing tablets are well represented, as are literary and technical texts down to the early medieval period, when striking changes appear. The commentaries identify innovations, discontinuities and phenomena of long duration. Readers will learn much about the diversity and development of Latin.
Book Synopsis Comedy and the Rise of Rome by : Matthew Leigh
Download or read book Comedy and the Rise of Rome written by Matthew Leigh and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy and the Rise of Rome invites the reader to consider Roman comedy in the light of history and Roman history in the light of comedy. Plautus and Terence base their dramas on the New Comedy of fourth- and third-century BC Greece. Yet many of the themes with which they engage are peculiarly alive in the Rome of the Hannibalic war, and the conquest of Macedon. This study takes issues as diverse as the legal status of the prisoner of war, the ethics of ambush, fatherhoodand command, and the clash of maritime and agrarian economies, and examines responses to them both on the comic stage and in the world at large. This is a substantially new departure in ways of thinking about Roman comedy and one that opens it up to a far wider public than has previously been thecase.
Book Synopsis Varro the Agronomist by : Grant A. Nelsestuen
Download or read book Varro the Agronomist written by Grant A. Nelsestuen and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The form and genre of Varronian res rusticae -- Creating the agronomical field of res rusticae -- Agri Cultura and the Italian farm in RR 1 -- The song of Faustulus: pastures and provinces in RR 2 -- Provincial pastures: the Amoebean refrain of Romulus in RR 2 -- Tending the villa of Rome in RR 3 -- Varro's imperial estate and its intellectual contexts
Book Synopsis Gardens of the Roman Empire by : Wilhelmina F. Jashemski
Download or read book Gardens of the Roman Empire written by Wilhelmina F. Jashemski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gardens of the Roman Empire, the pioneering archaeologist Wilhelmina F. Jashemski sets out to examine the role of ancient Roman gardens in daily life throughout the empire. This study, therefore, includes for the first time, archaeological, literary, and artistic evidence about ancient Roman gardens across the entire Roman Empire from Britain to Arabia. Through well-illustrated essays by leading scholars in the field, various types of gardens are examined, from how Romans actually created their gardens to the experience of gardens as revealed in literature and art. Demonstrating the central role and value of gardens in Roman civilization, Jashemski and a distinguished, international team of contributors have created a landmark reference work that will serve as the foundation for future scholarship on this topic. An accompanying digital catalogue will be made available at: www.gardensoftheromanempire.org.