{"product_id":"on-agriculture-volume-ii","title":"On Agriculture, Volume II","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Roman farmer on farming.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColumella  (Lucius Iunius Moderatus) of Gades (Cadiz) lived in the reigns of the  first emperors to about AD 70. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Columella’s \u003ci\u003eOn Agriculture\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eDe re rustica\u003c\/i\u003e) is the most  comprehensive, systematic, and detailed of Roman agricultural works.  Book 1 covers choice of farming site; water supply; buildings; staff. 2:  Plowing; fertilizing; care of crops. 3–5: Cultivation, grafting, and  pruning of fruit trees, vines, and olives. 6: Acquisition, breeding, and  rearing of oxen, horses, and mules; veterinary medicine. 7: Sheep,  goats, pigs, and dogs. 8: Poultry; fish ponds. 9: Bee-keeping. 10 (in  hexameter poetry): Gardening. 11: Duties of the overseer of a farm;  calendar for farm work; more on gardening. 12: Duties of the overseer’s  wife; manufacture of wines; pickling; preserving. There is also a  separate treatise, \u003ci\u003eTrees\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eDe arboribus\u003c\/i\u003e), on vines and olives and various trees, perhaps part of an otherwise lost work written before \u003ci\u003eOn Agriculture.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Loeb Classical Library edition of Columella is in three volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54255919989080,"sku":"9780674994485","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780674994485.jpg?v=1780396232","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/on-agriculture-volume-ii","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}