Format:
xv, 389 Seiten, 16 Seiten Bildtafeln
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781108499897
Series Statement:
Cambridge classical texts and commentaries 60
Content:
"In the third century CE, the North African polymath, soldier and provincial official Q. Gargilius Martialis (died 260) wrote a treatise on the cultivation and medical use of fruits, vegetables and herbs. The agricultural part of this work survives in a fragmentary state in a single manuscript. Despite this impediment, the agricultural writings are noteworthy for the clear marks both of their meticulous research and of the application of independent judgement and experience. Gargilius furthermore presents his advice in a stylized and literary form that strives for elegance through the use of prose rhythm, rhetorical variatio and figurative language. The fragments will be valuable for those interested in ancient agriculture, in Greco-Roman authorship on the technai or artes and in the history and sociolinguistics of Latin. This volume offers a new edition and the first English translation of Gargilius' agricultural fragments as well as an introduction and full-scale commentary."--
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 323-352. - Index
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The agricultural fragments
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Parallel Latin text and English translation. - Kommentar in englisch
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108759489
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Gargilius Martialis, Quintus Gargilius Martialis, the agricultural fragments Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020 ISBN 9781108759489
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108499897
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108718622
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Obstbau
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Quelle
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Kommentar
DOI:
10.1017/9781108759489
Author information:
Gargilius Martialis, Quintus
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