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Title:

How to be a farmer : an ancient guide to life on the land, a work of many hands / selected, translated, and introduced by M.D. Usher.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xvi, 247 pages ; 18 cm.

Subject:

Farm life--Greece--Literary collections.--Literary collections.
Farm life--Rome--Literary collections.--Literary collections.
Country life--Greece--Literary collections.--Literary collections.
Country life--Rome--Literary collections.--Literary collections.
Agriculture, Ancient--Greece--Literary collections.--Literary collections.
Agriculture, Ancient--Rome--Literary collections.--Literary collections.

Other Authors:

Container of (expression): Hesiod. Works and days. Selections (Ancient wisdom for modern readers). English (Usher)
Container of (expression): Hesiod. Works and days. Selections (Ancient wisdom for modern readers). Greek (West)
Container of (expression): Plato. Republic. 368d-373a. English (Usher)
Container of (expression): Plato. Republic. 368d-373a. Greek (Emlyn-Jones and Preddy)
Container of (expression): Lucretius Carus, Titus. De rerum natura. Liber 1. 146-264. English (Usher)
Container of (expression): Lucretius Carus, Titus. De rerum natura. Liber 1. 146-264. Latin (Rouse and Smith)
Container of (expression): Varro, Marcus Terentius. Rerum rusticarum libri tres. Selections (Ancient wisdom for modern readers). English (Usher)
Container of (expression): Varro, Marcus Terentius. Rerum rusticarum libri tres. Selections (Ancient wisdom for modern readers). Latin (Hooper and Ash)
Container of (expression): Virgil. Georgica. Liber 2. 248-540. English (Usher)
Container of (expression): Virgil. Georgica. Liber 2. 248-540. Latin (Fairclough and Goold)
Container of (expression): Horace. Epodae. 1. 2. English (Usher)
Container of (expression): Horace. Epodae. 1. 2. Latin (Rudd)
Container of (expression): Horace. Carmina. 1. 1. English (Usher)
Container of (expression): Horace. Carmina. 1. 1. Latin (Rudd)
Container of (expression): Horace. Satirae. 6. 6. English (Usher)
Container of (expression): Horace. Satirae. 6. 6. Latin (Fairclough)
Container of (expression): Pliny, the Elder. Naturalis historia. Selections (Ancient wisdom for modern readers). English (Usher)
Container of (expression): Pliny, the Elder. Naturalis historia. Selections (Ancient wisdom for modern readers). Latin (Rackham)
Container of (expression): Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus. De re rustica. Selections (Ancient wisdom for modern readers). English (Usher)
Container of (expression): Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus. De re rustica. Selections (Ancient wisdom for modern readers). Latin (Forster and Heffner)
Container of (expression): Musonius Rufus, C. (Caius), approximately 30- Lectures. No. 11. English (Usher)
Container of (expression): Musonius Rufus, C. (Caius), approximately 30- Lectures. No. 11. Greek (Lutz)
Container of (expression): Longus. Daphnis and Chloe. 1-2. 1-2. English (Usher)
Container of (expression): Longus. Daphnis and Chloe. 1-2. 1-2. Greek (Henderson)
Container of (expression): Cato, Marcus Porcius, 234 B.C.-149 B.C. De agri cultura. Selections (Ancient wisdom for modern readers). English (Usher)
Container of (expression): Cato, Marcus Porcius, 234 B.C.-149 B.C. De agri cultura. Selections (Ancient wisdom for modern readers). Latin (Hooper and Ash)
Usher, M. D. (Mark David), 1966- translator. translator.
Ash, Harrison Boyd, 1891-1944, editor.
Emlyn-Jones, C. J., editor.
Fairclough, H. Rushton (Henry Rushton), 1862-1938, editor.
Forster, E. S. (Edward Seymour), 1879-1950, editor.
Goold, G. P., editor.
Heffner, Edward H. (Edward Hoch), 1886-1963, editor.
Henderson, Jeffrey, 1946- editor.
Hermann, Gottfried, 1772-1848, editor.
Hooper, William Davis, 1868-1945, editor.
Lutz, Cora E. (Cora Elizabeth), 1906-1985, editor.
Preddy, William, 1943- editor.
Rackham, H. (Harris), 1868-1944, editor.
Rouse, W. H. D. (William Henry Denham), 1863-1950, editor.
Rudd, Niall, editor.
Smith, Martin Ferguson, editor.
West, M. L. (Martin Litchfield), 1937-2015, editor.

Other Titles:

Container of (expression): Hymn to Earth, mother of all. English (Usher)
Container of (expression): Hymn to Earth, mother of all. Greek (West)
Container of (expression): Orphic hymns. 10. English (Usher)
Container of (expression): Orphic hymns. 10. Greek (Hermann)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Keeping up with the Joneses, livelihood is hard to come by : Works & days 1-46 / Hesiod -- The benefits of righteous living : Works & days 213-247 / Hesiod -- On work and wealth ; Works & days 286-319 and 381-382 / Hesiod -- Cultivating good neighbors, on thrift : Works & days 342-369 / Hesiod -- Procrastination, good and bad days : Works & days 410-413 and 825 / Hesiod -- A bucolic utopia ; Republic 368d-373a / Plato -- The philosophy of compost : De rerum natura 1.146-264 / Lucretius -- Dedication to Mrs. Farmer, invocation of rustic muses : Res rusticae 1.1-7 / Varro -- The prestige and antiquity of rearing livestock : Res rusticiae 2.1.6-10 / Varro -- Praise for the countryside : Georgics 2.248-540 / Vergil -- Reverie of a would-be farmer : Epodes 1.2 / Horace -- Simple tastes : Odes 3.1 / Horace -- Avoiding the rat race : Satires 2.6 / Horace -- Culture from agriculture : Natural history 18.1.5-3.14 / Pliny the Elder -- The ideal of smallholding : Natural history 18.4.17-23 and 18.7.35 and 18.8.41-43 / Pliny the Elder -- On barley and bread-making : Natural history 18.14-15 and 18.27-28.108 / Pliny the Elder -- Getting and naming a dog : De re rustica 7.12 / Columella -- On asses : De re rustica 7.1 / Columella -- What to look for in a ram : De re rustica 7.3.3 / Columella -- The joint venture farm : De re rustica Book 12, preface and [section] 1 / Columella -- Why farming is the best job for a philosopher : Lecture no. 11 / Musonius Rufus -- A garden on Lesbos : Daphnis & Chloe 4.1-2 / Longus -- The numinous landscape : Homeric hymns no. 30 ; Orphic hymns no. 10 ; De agricultura 134, 139-141 / Cato -- A farmer's memorial : Corpus inscriptionum latinarum I 1.600)

Summary:

"An assemblage of selections from classical literature that celebrate country living-what Roman authors called res rusticate"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0691211744
9780691211749

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1240575388

LCCN:

2021010078

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)