Cato on Farming: De Agriculture

by Marcus Cato, Andrew Dalby (Translator)

Overview

The first recipes to have survived in Latin, from the 2nd century BC, it is a particularly important resource. Cato wrote the earliest surviving complete work of Latin prose literature. It was this treatise: a book of instruction about the cultivation of vines, olives and fruit, the management of slaves and contract labour, the rituals consequent on ownership and even cookery for humans and the pharmacy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781909248069
Publisher:	Boyars, Marion Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date:	12/12/1998
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	248
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	18 Years