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Gargilius Martialis: The Agricultural Fragments James L. Zainaldin (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

Gargilius Martialis: The Agricultural Fragments By James L. Zainaldin (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

Gargilius Martialis: The Agricultural Fragments by James L. Zainaldin (Harvard University, Massachusetts)


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Summary

The agricultural writings of the third-century Roman author Gargilius Martialis provide an important perspective on ancient agriculture, scientific and technical authorship in Greece and Rome, and the history and sociolinguistics of Latin. This edition undertakes to explain Gargilius' agricultural writings and make them more accessible.

Gargilius Martialis: The Agricultural Fragments Summary

Gargilius Martialis: The Agricultural Fragments by James L. Zainaldin (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

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.

About James L. Zainaldin (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

James L. Zainaldin is a doctoral candidate at Harvard University, Massachusetts in the Department of the Classics. Among other publications concerning classical antiquity, he has written articles on Ptolemy's Almagest and Seneca's Moral Letters. His dissertation studies the intellectual culture of the artes in the early Roman Empire.

Table of Contents

Introduction: I. Gargilius Martialis: Life and Work; II. Gargilius in the Agricultural Tradition; III. Structure and Method; IV. Understanding the Agriculture of De arboribus pomiferis; V. Language and Style; VI. Reception; VII. History of the Text; VIII. Previous Editions; IX. Conventions Adopted in This Edition, Translation, and Commentary; Text, Critical Apparatus, and Translation: Sigla; Text, Critical Apparatus, and Translation; Commentary: I. De cydoneis; II. De persicis; III. De amygdalis; IV. De castaneis; Appendices: I. The Latin Text Shared by N (De arboribus pomiferis) and the Manuscripts of Medicinae ex holeribus et pomis; II. Manure in the Agricultural Authors; III. Spelling Errors in the Manuscript.

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NPB9781108718622
9781108718622
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Gargilius Martialis: The Agricultural Fragments by James L. Zainaldin (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
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Cambridge University Press
2023-04-06
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