Cato
Rural economy.
Editions Errance
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| N° d'inventaire | 25610 |
| Format | 16 x 24 |
| Détails | 80 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2004 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782877722759 |
Marcus Porcius Cato, nicknamed the Elder or the Censor (Tusculum 234 -149 BC).
J.-C.), led a brilliant military career - from the Second Punic War to the conquest of Spain and the campaign against the Syrian king, Antiochus III the Great - and a brilliant political one. The intransigence of his moral convictions - he rebelled against the corrupting influence of Hellenistic civilization and denounced the laxity of the Romans in matters of morality - and his exacerbated patriotism made him a legendary figure in Rome.
Known as De re rustica or De agricultura, Rural Economy is the oldest surviving work in Latin prose and the only one by Cato that has come down to us in its entirety. Composed of notes, advice, instructions and precepts on agricultural techniques relating to the cultivation of cereals, meadows, viticulture, olive growing, arboriculture, and horticulture, it also covers many related subjects: the purchase and inspection of an estate, the obligations of the farmer, the equipment of an olive grove, a vineyard, the construction of a farm, a press, an olive crusher, a lime kiln, felling wood, fattening poultry, feeding slaves and oxen, rental and sales contracts, salting hams, the treatment of dislocations and fractures, etc.
It contains the oldest recipes for pastries and wine preparations used by the Romans. It is our only source on certain agricultural rites and magical practices. Among the agronomic works of the Ancients, its value is all the more precious because it provides information in its raw state, providing unique documents to the historian of technology, human and veterinary medicine, law and religion.
J.-C.), led a brilliant military career - from the Second Punic War to the conquest of Spain and the campaign against the Syrian king, Antiochus III the Great - and a brilliant political one. The intransigence of his moral convictions - he rebelled against the corrupting influence of Hellenistic civilization and denounced the laxity of the Romans in matters of morality - and his exacerbated patriotism made him a legendary figure in Rome.
Known as De re rustica or De agricultura, Rural Economy is the oldest surviving work in Latin prose and the only one by Cato that has come down to us in its entirety. Composed of notes, advice, instructions and precepts on agricultural techniques relating to the cultivation of cereals, meadows, viticulture, olive growing, arboriculture, and horticulture, it also covers many related subjects: the purchase and inspection of an estate, the obligations of the farmer, the equipment of an olive grove, a vineyard, the construction of a farm, a press, an olive crusher, a lime kiln, felling wood, fattening poultry, feeding slaves and oxen, rental and sales contracts, salting hams, the treatment of dislocations and fractures, etc.
It contains the oldest recipes for pastries and wine preparations used by the Romans. It is our only source on certain agricultural rites and magical practices. Among the agronomic works of the Ancients, its value is all the more precious because it provides information in its raw state, providing unique documents to the historian of technology, human and veterinary medicine, law and religion.
J.-C.), led a brilliant military career - from the Second Punic War to the conquest of Spain and the campaign against the Syrian king, Antiochus III the Great - and a brilliant political one. The intransigence of his moral convictions - he rebelled against the corrupting influence of Hellenistic civilization and denounced the laxity of the Romans in matters of morality - and his exacerbated patriotism made him a legendary figure in Rome.
Known as De re rustica or De agricultura, Rural Economy is the oldest surviving work in Latin prose and the only one by Cato that has come down to us in its entirety. Composed of notes, advice, instructions and precepts on agricultural techniques relating to the cultivation of cereals, meadows, viticulture, olive growing, arboriculture, and horticulture, it also covers many related subjects: the purchase and inspection of an estate, the obligations of the farmer, the equipment of an olive grove, a vineyard, the construction of a farm, a press, an olive crusher, a lime kiln, felling wood, fattening poultry, feeding slaves and oxen, rental and sales contracts, salting hams, the treatment of dislocations and fractures, etc.
It contains the oldest recipes for pastries and wine preparations used by the Romans. It is our only source on certain agricultural rites and magical practices. Among the agronomic works of the Ancients, its value is all the more precious because it provides information in its raw state, providing unique documents to the historian of technology, human and veterinary medicine, law and religion.