Agricola

About this eBook

Author

Heitland, William Emerton, 1847-1935

Title

Agricola : A study of agriculture and rustic life in the Greco-Roman world from the point of view of labour

Original Publication

Cambridge: University Press, 1921.

Credits

Lisa Corcoran, Tim Lindell, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Language

English

LoC Class

HD: Social sciences: Economic history and conditions, Production

Subject

Italy -- Rural conditions

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 74220

Release Date

August 9, 2024

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.AGRICOLA
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.TABLE OF CONTENTS
6. 6.INTRODUCTORY — I. EVIDENCE. — II. LAND AND LABOUR.
7. 7.AUTHORITIES IN DETAIL—GREEK — III. THE HOMERIC POEMS. — IV. HESIOD. — V. STRAY NOTES FROM EARLY POETS. — VI. TRACES OF SERFDOM IN GREEK STATES. — VII. HERODOTUS. — VIII. THE TRAGEDIANS. — IX. THE ‘CONSTITUTION OF ATHENS’ OR ‘OLD OLIGARCH.’ — X. ARISTOPHANES. — XI. THUCYDIDES. — XII. XENOPHON. — XIII. THE COMIC FRAGMENTS. — XIV. EARLY LAWGIVERS AND THEORISTS. — XV. PLATO. — XVI. THE EARLIER ATTIC ORATORS. — XVII. ARISTOTLE. — XVIII. THE LATER ATTIC ORATORS. — XIX. THE MACEDONIAN PERIOD 322-146 BC .
8. 8.ROME—EARLY PERIOD — XX. THE TRADITIONS COMBINED AND DISCUSSED. — XXI. ABSTRACT OF CONCLUSIONS.
9. 9.ROME—MIDDLE PERIOD — XXII. INTRODUCTORY GENERAL VIEW. — XXIII. CATO. — XXIV. AGRICULTURE IN THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD. — XXV. VARRO. — XXVI. CICERO. — XXVII. SALLUST AND OTHERS.
10. 10.ROME—THE EMPIRE — XXVIII. AGRICULTURE AND AGRICULTURAL LABOUR UNDER THE ROMAN EMPIRE. GENERAL INTRODUCTION.
11. 11.ROME—AUGUSTUS TO NERO — XXIX. HORACE AND VERGIL. — XXX. THE ELDER SENECA AND OTHERS. — XXXI. SENECA THE YOUNGER. — XXXII. LUCAN, PETRONIUS, AND OTHERS. — XXXIII. COLUMELLA. — Additional note to page 263
12. 12.AGE OF THE FLAVIAN AND ANTONINE EMPERORS — XXXIV. GENERAL INTRODUCTION. — NOTE ON EMIGRATION FROM ITALY. — XXXV. MUSONIUS. — XXXVI. PLINY THE ELDER. — XXXVII. TACITUS. — NOTE ON AN AFRICAN INSCRIPTION. — XXXVIII. FRONTINUS. — XXXIX. INSCRIPTIONS RELATIVE TO ALIMENTA . — XL. DION CHRYSOSTOM. — XLI. NEW TESTAMENT WRITERS. — XLII. MARTIAL AND JUVENAL. — XLIII. PLINY THE YOUNGER. — XLIV. SUETONIUS AND OTHERS. — XLV. APULEIUS.
13. 13.COMMODUS TO DIOCLETIAN — XLVI. GENERAL INTRODUCTION. — XLVII. THE AFRICAN INSCRIPTIONS. — XLVIII. DISCUSSION OF THE ABOVE INSCRIPTIONS. — XLIX. THE JURISTS OF THE DIGEST. — L. THE LATER COLONATE, ITS PLACE IN ROMAN HISTORY. — ADDITIONAL NOTES TO CHAPTER L.
14. 14.FROM DIOCLETIAN — LI. GENERAL INTRODUCTION. — LII. LIBANIUS. — LIII. SYMMACHUS — LIV. AMMIANUS. — LV. CLAUDIAN. — LVI. VEGETIUS.
15. 15.CHRISTIAN WRITERS — LVII. LACTANTIUS. — LVIII. SULPICIUS SEVERUS. — LIX. SALVIAN. — LX. APOLLINARIS SIDONIUS. — LXI. CONCLUDING CHAPTER.
16. 16.APPENDIX. SOME BYZANTINE AUTHORITIES. — A. GEOPONICA. — B. THE FARMER’S LAW. — C. EXTRACTS FROM MODERN BOOKS. — Modern Italian Conditions. — The Big Man and the Small Farmer. — Eastern Europe. — D. LIST OF SOME BOOKS USED. — (1) Agriculture and rustic life and labour. — (2) Economic and social matters. — (3) Law and the later Colonate. — (4) Manumission and kindred topics. — (5) Slavery and slave trade. — (6) Medieval and Modern conditions. — (7) Special American section.
17. 17.FOOTNOTES
18. 18.INDICES — I GENERAL — II LIST OF WORDS AND PHRASES — A. GREEK — B. LATIN — III LIST OF PASSAGES CITED — IV MODERN AUTHORITIES — V COUNTRIES, PLACES AND PEOPLES

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