Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro.
Häftad bok. Dodo Press. Ny uppl. 2010. 215 sidor.
Mycket gott skick. SÅ sköttes jordbruk, olivodlingar och andra agrara näringar i Romarriket ett par hundra år före Kristi födelse (se mer nedan). Done into English, with notes of modern instances by a Virginia Farmer [Farifax Harrison] 1918. Edited by F. H. Belvoir. First edition 1913, second ed. 1918. This copy is a 2010 reprint of the second edition with several additions to the notes and correcting some errors. A rare and classic ancient roman work, selected by scholars as being culturally important, and part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. Paperback. 8:o. 230x150x15 mm. 370 g. Välvårdat och fint ex, inga anmärkningar, skick nära som ny. [21230] /---/ Marcus Porcius Cato (234 BC-149 BC) was a Roman statesman (not his great-grandson Cato the Younger). He was bred to agriculture, to which he devoted himself when not engaged in military service. Marcus Terentius Varro (116 BC-27 BC), also known as Varro Reatinus to distinguish him from his younger contemporary Varro Atacinus, was a Roman scholar and writer. He studied under the Roman philologist Lucius Aelius Stilo, and later at Athens under the Academic philosopher Antiochus of Ascalon. Politically, he supported Pompey, reaching the office of praetor, after having been tribune of the people, quaestor and curule aedile. He escaped the penalties of being on the losing side in the civil war through two pardons granted by Julius Caesar, before and after the Battle of Pharsalus. /---/ A handsome copy of this interesting compendium on Roman agriculture and country life. The texts of Cato the Censor and Varro were transmitted together in numerous manuscripts. They were first jointly published in 1472 in Venice by Nicolas Jenson and formed the principal source of information on aspects of Roman rural life, such as wine and olive production, farming, bookkeeping and the breeding and grazing of livestock. The authors, Marcus Porcius and Marcus Terentius Varro, were Roman gentlemen, farmers and landowners. The text opens with Cato's De agricoltura (c. 160 BC), the oldest surviving prose work in Latin, dealing with the development of vine, olive and fruit growing. There follows Varro's Rerum rusticarum (c. 36 BC), divided into 3 books, on farm building and labour, the breeding, management and feeding of animals, especially sheep and birds, fowl, bees and fishponds. It provides the etymology of words, citing earlier authors who wrote on the cultivation of the fields.
