TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Varro the agronomist : political philosophy, satire, and agriculture in the late Republic
A1  - Nelsestuen, Grant A., 1979- kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Columbus, Ohio
PB  - The Ohio State University Press
YR  - 2015
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/helka.9928950803506253
AB  - Some six years after his narrow escape from proscription in 43 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, the "most learned" of the Romans, wrote a technical treatise on farming in the form of a satirico-philosophical dialogue. Grant A. Nelsestuen argues that far from simply being just another encyclopedic entry of a seemingly aloof antiquarian or offering an escapist's retreat into rustication, Varro's De Re Rustica uses the model of the farm to craft an implicitly political treatise that grapples with multifarious challenges facing the contemporary Roman world. On one level, Varro's treatise presents an innovative account of the Roman farm, which rationalizes new agricultural and pastoral opportunities for contemporary elite owners of large-scale estates. But on another level, this bold agronomical vision associates the farm's different spheres with distinct areas under Roman control, thereby allegorizing Rome's empire on the model of a farm. Nelsestuen argues that Varro's treatise thus provides his contemporaries with a model for governing the Roman state, anticipates Augustus' subsequent transformation of Roman dominion into a coherent territorial state, and offers an ancient theory of imperialism.
SN  - 978-0-8142-1291-2 kovakantinen
KW  - Varro, M. Terentius. : Rerum rusticarum libri tres.
KW  - Agriculture, Ancient : Rome.
KW  - Political science : Rome : Philosophy.
KW  - Satire, Latin : History and criticism.
KW  - antiikki.
KW  - kirjallisuudentutkimus.
KW  - latinankielinen kirjallisuus.
KW  - antiken.
KW  - litteraturvetenskap.
KW  - litteratur på latin.
ER  -