Geoponika: Farm Work - A Modern Translation of the Roman and Byzantine Farming Handbook (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Geoponika A classical text from the Byzantine Renaissance containing a collection of classical and post-classical agricultural works.
Full description- Publisher: PROSPECT BOOKS
- Published: 28 March 2011
- Format: Hardback 320 pages
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- Categories: History Of Engineering & Technology | Agriculture & Farming | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Medieval History
- ISBN 13: 9781903018699 ISBN 10: 1903018692
- Sales rank: 630,815
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Full description for Geoponika
Geoponika is one of the most celebrated texts to come out of the Byzantine renaissance promoted by the 10th-century emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. It was a gathering together of many classical and post-classical agricultural works, from Pliny in ancient Rome to the 7th-century Cassianus Bassus and the 4th-century Vindonius Anatolius. Many of these no longer survive, making the Geoponika the more valuable. It is a source both for ancient Roman agricultural practice in the West, and for understanding Near Eastern agriculture and what went on in Byzantine Anatolia. It was once translated into English, in the early 19th century, but has usually only been accessible to scholars of Greek. The history of the manuscript is extremely complicated. Andrew Dalby provides a modern and intelligent translation. He does not explore in any detail textual and linguistic matters, wishing to concentrate on questions of agriculture and food production (meanwhile a definitive Greek text is in preparation elsewhere). This will be an essential tool for students of the classical and medieval worlds.
