Agricultural Implements of the Roman WorldCambridge University Press, 26. 8. 2010 - Počet stran: 266 Most of the inhabitants of the Roman world lived by farming. The kinds of farming they practised varied as Roman domination spread north of the Alps. This book deals with the tools they used, in all their variety, and with the way they used them. It describes in detail agricultural implements, both simple and complex, from shovels, spades, saws and sickles to ploughs, harrows and reaping machines. Each description carries full references to the sources of information, including allusions in literature and the evidence of monuments and mosaics. The book ends with a catalogue raisonné of the implements illustrated in the text. The author uses practical knowledge of agriculture, as well as learning, to identify and interpret the objects under examination; this is, literally, scholarship brought down to earth. |
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Introduction I | 9 |
Spades and Shovels | 17 |
Mattocks Hoes and Axes | 36 |
Knives Sickles Hooks and Scythes | 69 |
Forks | 104 |
S Saws | 116 |
Ploughs | 123 |
Harrows | 146 |
Drags and Threshing Machines | 152 |
A List of implements discussed with names of authors in whose | 195 |
Agricultural implements and operations depicted in mosaics | 201 |
F Servius and Schol Dan on Vergil G 1 170 ff | 212 |
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