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Homesteading

Agricola

William Emerton Heitland

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How did the ancient world actually farm, and who did the labor? William Heitland sifts Greek and Roman evidence for land and labor, reading Homer, Hesiod, and the early poets for traces of serfdom and the working farm. A monumental scholarly excavation of antiquity's fields. Dig into the deep roots of Western agriculture with a masterful guide.

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102 chapters

  1. 1AGRICOLA
  2. 2PREFACE
  3. 3TABLE OF CONTENTS
  4. 4INTRODUCTORY
  5. 5I. EVIDENCE.
  6. 6II. LAND AND LABOUR.
  7. 7AUTHORITIES IN DETAIL—GREEK
  8. 8III. THE HOMERIC POEMS.
  9. 9IV. HESIOD.
  10. 10V. STRAY NOTES FROM EARLY POETS.
  11. 11VI. TRACES OF SERFDOM IN GREEK STATES.
  12. 12VII. HERODOTUS.
  13. 13VIII. THE TRAGEDIANS.
  14. 14IX. THE ‘CONSTITUTION OF ATHENS’ OR ‘OLD OLIGARCH.’
  15. 15X. ARISTOPHANES.
  16. 16XI. THUCYDIDES.
  17. 17XII. XENOPHON.
  18. 18XIII. THE COMIC FRAGMENTS.

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