Country life in classical times / K.D. White.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	White, K. D.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1977.
Subjects:	Classical literature > Translations into English. Country life > Greece > Literary collections. Country life > Rome > Literary collections.

Table of Contents:

Introductory. from Iliad. Similes from nature sharpen the picture of strife / Homer
from Works and days. The two kinds of strife / Hesiod
A mass evacuation from country to town / Thucydides
from Peace. The rustic hero and the delights of peace / Aristophanes
from Characters. The boor / Theophrastus
A boor of a poet / Catullus
Trouble on Regulus' farm / Valerius Maximus
from Roman antiquities. Cincinnatus / Dionysius of Halicarnassus
A bad political gaffe / Valerius Maximus
from On farming. The decline in farming standards / Columella
from Life of Apollonius of Tyana. A famine relieved / Philostratus
from The country salad (Moretum). Morning on an Italian smallholding / Anonymous
from Corpus of Latin inscriptions. Excessive demands made upon imperial tenants.
Landscapes, real or imagined. from Iliad. Scenes on the shield of Achilles / Homer
from Odyssey. The gardens of Alkinoos / Homer
from Homeric hymn to Pan. An enchanted landscape
from Idyll. Sicilian summer / Theocritus
from On the nature of things. The man-made Italian landscape / Lucretius
from On farming. In praise of Italy / Varro
from Georgics. In praise of Italy / Virgil
from Aeneid. A landscaped haven / Virgil
from Letters. A Tuscan villa and its setting ; En route to a country estate / Pliny
from The Moselle. River scenes / Ausonius
from Miscellany. Squillace and its surroundings / Cassiodorus
from On his return. A voyage along the Italian coast / Rutilius Namatianus.
The country through the eye of the townsman. from Oeconomicus. A day on a suburban Greek farm / Xenophon
from The bad-tempered man. Ill temper on the farm / Menander
from On farming. Farm management for the absentee owner / Cato
from On old age. The pleasures of farming / Cicero
from Epodes. Daydreams of a moneylender / Horace
from Letters. Every man to his trade ; The poet addresses his town-loving farm manager / Horace
from Satires. The tale of the town mouse and the country mouse / Horace
from Odes. In the winter choose the pleasures of the town / Horace
from Metamorphoses. Philemon and Baucis entertain the gods / Ovid
from Letters. On the simple life / Seneca
from Satires. The townsman looks at country life / Juvenal
from Epigrams. Country preferred to town / Martial.
Farm management and the farmer's calendar. Letters from Roman Egypt : Fayum Papyri, 111 and 119
from Oeconomicus. On farm management / Xenophon
from On farming. On agricultural economics ; Personnel management on the farm / Varro
from Works and days. Watch for weather signs : keep active ; The rigours of winter ; Relax in the height of summer ; Leaves from a Boeotian farmer's almanack / Hesiod
from Weather signs. Signs of stormy or sunny weather / Aratus
A farmer's almanack : Corpus of Latin inscriptions
from Georgics. Spring work on the farm ; Jobs for bad weather and for holidays ; Jobs for night-time and winter / Virgil
Meleager's spring song : Palatine anthology.
Seasonal operations on the farm. from Works and days. On making a plough, and choosing a ploughman / Hesiod
from On farming. On land drainage / Cato
from Natural history. On ploughing / Pliny
from On farming. On hoeing ; On manure ; On harvesting, threshing, and winnowing of grain / Columella
from On farming. The threshing floor / Varro
from Natural history. On haymaking ; How to train vines / Pliny
from On farming. The vintage / Varro
On treading the grapes / Geoponics
from On farming. On gathering and processing olives / Varro
from On farming. Contracts for harvesting grapes and for the sale of grapes and wine / Cato
from Letters. A day on an imperial farm / Fronto.
Out on the range. from On farming. The shepherds and their life on the range / Varro
from Georgics. Battle for leadership of the herd / Virgil
from On farming. On sheep-shearing / Varro
Trouble on a cattle ranch : Corpus of Latin inscriptions
from Georgics. Animal husbandry in Africa and Scythia / Virgil
from On farming. On flock management ; How to train oxen to the plough / Columella
from On farming. On pig-rearing / Varro
from Discourses. Transhumance in Euboea / Dio Chrysostom
from Letters. Sheep on the public highway / Fronto.
The changing patterns of rural life. from Elegies. Land reform in sixth century Athens / Solon
from Life of Solon. Solon's land reform / Plutarch
from Constitution of Athens. The tax-free farm / Aristotle
from Tiberius Gracchus. The land reform bill of Tiberius Gracchus : Plutarch's version / Plutarch
from Civil wars. The background to land reform in Italy : Appian's version / Appian
Depopulation in Latium / Livy
from Pharsalia. Depopulation of Italy ; Devastation in Italy / Lucan
from On farming. On luxury estates / Varro
from Epigrams. A very productive estate / Martial
from Letters. Farm tenancy problems / Pliny
from Discourses (Euboicus). Neglect of land and depopulation in Greece / Dio Chrysostom
The Maktar reaper : Corpus of Latin inscriptions
from Reports. A severe famine in Italy / Symmachus
from Duties of the clergy. A famine relieved / Ambrose.
Rural cults and festivals. from The Acharnians. A country feast / Aristophanes
from The frogs. Procession of the Eleusinian initiates / Aristophanes
from Idylls. On the way to a festival / Theocritus
from On farming. Purification of the fields / Cato
from Elegies. The cleansing of the fields / Tibullus
from Calendar. Festival of the Terminalia ; Festival of Anna Perenna / Ovid
from Elegies. The gods have transformed country life / Tibullus
from Calendar. Prayers to the country gods / Ovid
from Odes. A prayer to Faunus ; Bandusia's well / Horace.
Private pleasures in the countryside. from Peace. Peace returns to the farm / Aristophanes
from Idylls. The harvesters / Theocritus
from Letters. Scipio Africanus' bath house at Liternum / Seneca
from On old age. The elder Cato on country pleasures / Cicero
from Elegies. The poet dreams of farming with his mistress / Tibullus
from Georgics. An old man's well-kept plot / Virgil
from Elegies. Cynthia on the farm / Propertius
from Elegies. The poet longs for a quiet life / Tibullus
from Satires. A contented countryman / Horace
from Epigrams. Views from an upland suburban farm ; A poet's invitation to dinner at his farm / Martial
from Letters. An old man's country retreat / Pliny
from Octavius. An excursion to the seaside / Minucius Felix
from Letters. A two-centre holiday ; Holidaying in style / Sidonius.
Hunting and fishing. from On hunting. On hare-hunting ; Hunting the wild boar / Xenophon
from On hunting. Trapping the lion / Oppian
from On hunting. A humane view of hare-hunting / Arrian
from Discourses (Euboicus). The seamy side of hunting / Dio Chrysostom
from Letters. Hunting and reading combined / Pliny
from Idyll. A dream of a fish / Theocritus
from On the nature of animals. On fly-fishing / Aelian
from The Moselle. Angling on the Moselle / Ausonius
from Fisherman. An odd kind of angling / Lucian.

Country life in classical times / K.D. White.

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