Agricola
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS C. F. CLAY, Manager LONDON: FETTER LANE, E.C. 4
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AGRICOLA
A STUDY OF AGRICULTURE AND RUSTIC LIFE IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF LABOUR
BY W E HEITLAND MA FELLOW OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE
CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1921
‘Inspect the basis of the social pile:
Inquire,’ said I, ‘how much of mental power
William Emerton Heitland
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AGRICOLA
PREFACE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTORY
I. EVIDENCE.
II. LAND AND LABOUR.
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.
ROME—EARLY PERIOD
XX. THE TRADITIONS COMBINED AND DISCUSSED.
XXI. ABSTRACT OF CONCLUSIONS.
ROME—MIDDLE PERIOD
XXII. INTRODUCTORY GENERAL VIEW.
XXIII. CATO.
XXIV. AGRICULTURE IN THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD.
XXV. VARRO.
XXVI. CICERO.
XXVII. SALLUST AND OTHERS.
ROME—THE EMPIRE
XXVIII. AGRICULTURE AND AGRICULTURAL LABOUR UNDER THE ROMAN EMPIRE. GENERAL INTRODUCTION.
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.
AGE OF THE FLAVIAN AND ANTONINE EMPERORS
XXXIV. GENERAL INTRODUCTION.
XXXV. MUSONIUS.
XXXVI. PLINY THE ELDER.
XXXVII. TACITUS.
XXXVIII. FRONTINUS.
XL. DION CHRYSOSTOM.
XLI. NEW TESTAMENT WRITERS.
XLII. MARTIAL AND JUVENAL.
XLIII. PLINY THE YOUNGER.
XLIV. SUETONIUS AND OTHERS.
XLV. APULEIUS.
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.
FROM DIOCLETIAN
LI. GENERAL INTRODUCTION.
LII. LIBANIUS.
LIII. SYMMACHUS
LIV. AMMIANUS.
LV. CLAUDIAN.
LVI. VEGETIUS.
CHRISTIAN WRITERS
LVII. LACTANTIUS.
LVIII. SULPICIUS SEVERUS.
LIX. SALVIAN.
LX. APOLLINARIS SIDONIUS.
LXI. CONCLUDING CHAPTER.
A. GEOPONICA.
B. THE FARMER’S LAW.
C. EXTRACTS FROM MODERN BOOKS.
D. LIST OF SOME BOOKS USED.
FOOTNOTES
INDICES
I GENERAL
II LIST OF WORDS AND PHRASES
III LIST OF PASSAGES CITED
IV MODERN AUTHORITIES
V COUNTRIES, PLACES AND PEOPLES
