Gargilius Martialis: The Agricultural Fragments (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108499897)

In the third century CE, the North African polymath, soldier, and provincial official Q. Gargilius Martialis (died 260) wrote a treatise on the cultivation and medical use of fruits, vegetables, and herbs. The agricultural part of this work survives in a fragmentary state in a single manuscript. Despite this impediment, the agricultural writings are noteworthy for the clear marks both of their meticulous research and of the application of independent judgement and experience. Gargilius furthermore presents his advice in a stylized and literary form that strives for elegance through the use of prose rhythm, rhetorical variatio, and figurative language. The fragments will be valuable for those interested in ancient agriculture, in Greco-Roman authorship on the technai or artes, and in the history and sociolinguistics of Latin. This volume offers a new edition and the first English translation of Gargilius' agricultural fragments as well as an introduction and full-scale commentary.

Author: James L. Zainaldin
ISBN-10: 1108499899
ISBN-13: 9781108499897
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/02/2020
Pages: 402
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.50w x 1.00d