Country Life in Classical Times |
Contents
a Similes from nature sharpen the picture of strife | 13 |
j A bad political gaffe | 19 |
a Scenes on the shield of Achilles | 26 |
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Agrippa Postumus amurca animals Anna Perenna Appian Aristophanes Bardo Museum basket bath better boar Boscotrecase called cattle centre century A.D. Cherchel cleaned Columella corn countryside crop cultivated Dio Chrysostom earth farm farmer farmstead Faunus feast fields fish flock Floor mosaic fruit Gallo-Roman gathered Georgics goats gods grain grapes ground GUY LEE hand hare harvest herd herdsmen Hesiod hoeing Horace horn hounds hunting Iacchos Italy JAMES RHOADES keep labour land landscape leaves Lityerses look manure month mother mountain Naples National Museum neighbour night Nones fall olives opposite bottom opposite top owner oxen painting pasture planted plough Pompeii Priapus Roman Rome rustic scene season sheep shepherds sing slaves soil summer Theocritus threshed threshing-floor Tibullus town trees Varro villa vines vineyards vintage Virgil wall weather wild wine winter wood yoke