Agricola : A Study of Agriculture and Rustic Life in the Greco-Roman World from the Point of View of Labour (Paperback)

Preface; Introductory: 1. Evidence; 2. Land and labour; Authorities in Detail ? Greek: 3. The Iliad and Odyssey; 4. Hesiod, works and days; 5. Stray notes from early poets; 6. Traces of serfdom in Greek states; 7. Herodotus; 8. The Tragedians; 9. The 'Constitution of Athens' or 'Old Oligarch'; 10. Aristophanes; 11. Thucydides; 12. Xenophon; 13. The comic fragments; 14. Early lawgivers and theorists; 15. Plato; 16. The earlier Attic orators; 17. Aristotle; 18. The later Attic orators; 19. The Macedonian period and the Leagues; Rome ? Early Period to 200 B.C.: 20. The traditions combined and discussed; 21. Abstract of conclusions; Rome ? Middle Period: 22. Introductory general view of period 200 BC?180 AD; 23. Cato; 24. Agriculture in the revolutionary period; 25. Varro; 26. Cicero; 27. Sallust etc; Rome ? the Empire: 28. Agriculture and agricultural labour under the Roman Empire. General introduction; Rome ? Augustus to Nero: 29. Horace and Vergil; 30. The Elder Seneca etc; 31. Seneca the Younger; 32. Lucan, Petronius, etc.; 33. Columella; Age of the Flavian and Antonine Emperors: 34. General introduction; 35. Musonius; 36. Pliny the Elder; 37. Tacitus; 38. Frontinus; 39. Inscriptions relative to Alimenta; 40. Dion Chrysostom; 41. New Testament writers; 42. Martial and Juvenal; 43. Pliny the Younger; 44. Suetonius etc; 45. Apuleius; Commodus to Diocletian: 46. General introduction; 47. The African inscriptions; 48. Discussion of the same; 49. The jurists of the Digest; 50. The later Colonate, its place in Roman history; From Diocletian: 51. General introduction; 52. Libanius; 53. Symmachus; 54. Ammianus; 55. Claudian; 56. Vegetius; Christian Writers: 57. Lactantius; 58. Sulpicius Severus; 59. Salvian; 60. Apollinaris Sidonius; 61. Concluding chapter; Appendix; Indices.