Contact
How to shop
Delivery
Shopping guide
On Agriculture
English
Affordable
&
affordable ▸
Up to 30 days for returns
Customers also purchased
/
Paperback
25.52
€
49.92 лв
/
Paperback
37.02
€
72.41 лв
/
Paperback
28.26
€
55.26 лв
/
Paperback
11.81
€
23.09 лв
/
Paperback
17.48
€
34.18 лв
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." The Loeb Classical Library edition of Columella is in three volumes.
About the book
English
Give this book today
It's easy
1 Add to cart and choose Deliver as present at the checkout 2 We'll send you a voucher 3 The book will arrive at the recipient's addressYou might also be interested in
/
Paperback
8.66
€
16.94 лв
/
Paperback
12.68
€
24.80 лв
/
Paperback
28.26
€
55.26 лв
/
Jigsaw puzzle
15.67
€
30.65 лв
/
Paperback
8.66
€
16.94 лв
/
Paperback
8.50
€
16.63 лв
Hi! I'm Libroamiko, your book advisor.
How can I help you?