De agri cultura

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De agri cultura is an early Latin prose work by Cato the Elder that serves as a practical manual on Roman agriculture, farm management, and rural life.

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De agri cultura canonical 4
De Agri Cultura 1
De agricultura 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Latin prose work
ancient Roman agricultural treatise
didactic literature
alsoKnownAs De agricultura
linked to: De agri cultura
approximateDateWritten c. 160–150 BC
author Cato the Elder
contains advice on buying land
advice on hiring and supervising overseers
instructions for farm buildings
instructions for olive groves
instructions for vineyard layout
lists of tools and equipment
religious and ritual prescriptions for farming
countryOfOrigin Roman Republic
dateWritten 2nd century BC
describes organization of a Roman villa rustica
roles of the vilicus and vilica
seasonal work schedules
storage and processing of agricultural products
focusesOn medium-sized slave-run estates
profitable cash crops
genre agricultural manual
farm management guide
hasLatinTitle De agri cultura
historicalContext late Roman Republic agrarian economy
influenced Columella's De re rustica
Palladius's Opus agriculturae
Varro's De re rustica
later Roman agricultural writers
literaryStyle concise and pragmatic
non-rhetorical prose
mainSubject Roman agriculture
estate management
farm management
livestock raising
olive cultivation
rural life
slavery in Roman agriculture
viticulture
notableFor being the oldest surviving work of Latin prose
insights into Roman social and economic history
practical instructions on running a Roman farm
prescriptive rules for treatment of slaves
recipes and instructions for food and wine production
originalLanguage Latin
preservedIn medieval manuscript tradition
structure collection of short, numbered sections

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Cato the Elder notableWork De agri cultura
Luigi Alamanni notableWork La Coltivazione
linked to: De agri cultura
Cato the Elder wroteWork De agri cultura
subject linked to: Cato Major
Cato the Elder notableWork De agri cultura
subject linked to: Cato Major
De agri cultura hasLatinTitle De agri cultura
De agri cultura alsoKnownAs De agricultura
linked to: De agri cultura
Cato the Elder authored De Agri Cultura
subject linked to: Cato
linked to: De agri cultura