How to be a farmer : an ancient guide to life on the land, a work of many hands / selected, translated, and introduced by M.D. Usher.

"An assemblage of selections from classical literature that celebrate country living-what Roman authors called res rusticate"--

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Ancient wisdom for modern readers.
Other Authors:	Hesiod Plato Lucretius Carus, Titus Varro, Marcus Terentius Virgil Horace Pliny, the Elder Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus Musonius Rufus, C. (Caius), approximately 30- Longus Cato, Marcus Porcius, 234 B.C.-149 B.C Usher, M. D. (Mark David), 1966- (Compiler, Translator) Ash, Harrison Boyd, 1891-1944 (Editor) Emlyn-Jones, C. J. (Editor) Fairclough, H. Rushton (Henry Rushton), 1862-1938 (Editor) Forster, E. S. (Edward Seymour), 1879-1950 (Editor) Goold, G. P. (Editor) Heffner, Edward H. (Edward Hoch), 1886-1963 (Editor) Henderson, Jeffrey, 1946- (Editor) Hermann, Gottfried, 1772-1848 (Editor) Hooper, William Davis, 1868-1945 (Editor) Lutz, Cora E. (Cora Elizabeth), 1906-1985 (Editor) Preddy, William, 1943- (Editor) Rackham, H. (Harris), 1868-1944 (Editor) Rouse, W. H. D. (William Henry Denham), 1863-1950 (Editor) Rudd, Niall (Editor) Smith, Martin Ferguson (Editor) West, M. L. (Martin Litchfield), 1937-2015 (Editor)
Language:	English
Language of the Original:	Latin
Language and/or Writing System:	Text in English, translated from the Ancient Greek or Latin. Original text editors: Hesiod, M.L. West (1978) ; Plato, Christopher Emlyn-Jones and William Preddy (2013) ; Lucretius, W.H.D. Rouse and Martin F. Smith (1924) ; Varro, W.D. Hooper and Harrison Boyd Ash (1934) ; Virgil, H. Rushton Fairclough and G.P. Goold (1916) ; Horace, Odes and Epodes, Niall Rudd (2004) ; Horace, Satires, H. Rushton Fairclough (1926) ; Pliny, H. Rackham (1950); Columella, E.S. Forster and Edward H. Heffner (1954) ; Musonius Rufus, Cora E. Lutz (1947) ; Longus, Jeffrey Henderson (2009) ; Homeric hymns, Martin L. West (2003) ; Orphic hymns, Gottrfied Herman (1805) ; Cato, W.D. Hooper and Harrison Boyd Ash (1934) ; Corpus inscriptionum latinarum, E. Bormann (1888)
Published:	Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Series:	Ancient wisdom for modern readers.
Subjects:	Farm life > Greece > Early works to 1800 > Literary collections. Farm life > Rome > Early works to 1800 > Literary collections. Country life > Greece > Early works to 1800 > Literary collections. Country life > Rome > Early works to 1800 > Literary collections. Agriculture, Ancient > Greece > Early works to 1800 > Literary collections. Agriculture, Ancient > Rome > Early works to 1800 > Literary collections. PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical. SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Happiness. Agriculture, Ancient. Classical literature. Country life. Farm life. Greece. Rome (Empire) Classical literature > Translations into English. Literary collections. Translations.
Genre:	Early works to 1800 Literary collections. Classical literature. Classical literature Translations. Translations into English.
Physical Description:	xvi, 247 pages ; 18 cm.
Format:	Book

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