Carthaginesian Agriculture in Latin Literature: the other treatises De agri cultura
Abstract
All societies have shared the need to nourish themselves, as prosperity is hindered if there is famine. However, the ancient world isn’t an exception to this because its literature reliably reflects the need to sow crops and feed its people. This is clearly stated in the agricultural manuals which have been preserved. A thousand years separate Hesiod’s Works and Days from the Geoponica by Casiano Baso. In those 1000 years a multitude of agricultural texts were written, some of which are very well known, while others are less well known. Amongst those less fortunate agricultural texts are those which Magon, the Punic, signed in Carthage before the Second Punic War. This essay will focus on this text and its fate.
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