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How to be a farmer : an ancient guide to life on the land Cover Image E-book E-book

How to be a farmer : an ancient guide to life on the land

Usher, M. D. (Mark David), 1966- (compiler,, translator.).

Summary: "An assemblage of selections from classical literature that celebrate country living-what Roman authors called res rusticate"--

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  • ISBN: 9780691211749
  • ISBN: 9780691224732
  • ISBN: 0691224730
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 247 pages)
    remote
    Computer data.
  • Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]

Content descriptions

General Note:
CatMonthString:november.23
Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 15. The Ideal of Smallholding -- 16. On Barley and Bread-Making -- 17. Getting and Naming a Dog -- 18. On Asses -- 19. What to Look for in a Ram -- 20. The Joint Venture Farm -- 21. Why Farming Is the Best Job for a Philosopher -- 22. A Garden on Lesbos -- 23. The Numinous Landscape -- 24. A Farmer's Memorial -- Notes -- Passages Translated
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:
Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 03, 2021).

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Classical literature -- Translations into English
Country life -- Greece -- Literary collections
Country life -- Rome -- Literary collections
Farm life -- Greece -- Literary collections
Farm life -- Rome -- Literary collections
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Agriculture, Ancient
Classical literature
Country life
Farm life
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Greece
Rome (Empire)
Agriculture (Chinese mythology).
Agriculture.
Agronomy.
Anecdote.
Animal welfare.
Arval Brethren.
Aulularia.
Autoeroticism.
Barley water.
Barley.
Biodynamic agriculture.
Bonus Eventus.
Bread.
Bumper crop.
By Nature.
Cattle.
Chaff (countermeasure).
Cleanthes.
Compost.
Confectionery.
Coriander.
Country Living.
Cuisine.
Customer.
De Agri Cultura.
De rerum natura.
Diogenes of Sinope.
Divinity (academic discipline).
Earthenware.
Even working.
Family farm.
Firewood.
Flour.
Fodder.
Gaius Furius Chresimus.
Grazing.
Groat (grain).
Hesiod.
Highland cattle.
Household.
JSTOR-DDA
Keeping up with the Joneses.
Latifundium.
Life on Land.
Lifestyle (sociology).
Livelihood.
Livestock.
Loaf.
Loeb Classical Library.
Longus.
Lucretius.
Lympha.
Manual labour.
Manure.
Meal.
Military tribune.
Millet.
Moral development.
Multi-User.
My Neighbor.
New Harvest.
Nobility.
Ox.
Parilia.
Pasture.
Philosopher.
Philosophy.
Pilumnus.
Plautus.
Plebs.
Pliny the Elder.
Plough.
Plowshare.
Poetry.
Poor Richard's Almanack.
Priapus.
Robigalia.
Sabines.
Satire.
Satyr.
Self-sufficiency.
Simple living.
Slavery.
Smallholding.
Social capital.
Sowing.
Spelt.
Staple food.
State religion.
Stoicism.
Suovetaurilia.
Supper.
Sustainable living.
Trojan War.
Vegetable.
Vinalia.
Virgil.
Wealth.
Wendell Berry.
Wheat flour.
William Blake.
Working animal.
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