Country Life in Classical Times |
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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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ancient animals Anna Perenna Appian Aristophanes Axius Bardo Museum basket bath beneath better boar Boscotrecase called cattle century A.D. Cherchel Columella corn countryside crop cultivated delight Dio Chrysostom earth farm farmer Faunus feast feed fields fish flock follow fruit gathered Georgics give goats gods grain grapes ground GUY LEE hand hare harvest herd herdsmen Hesiod hoeing Horace horn hounds hunting Iacchos Italy JAMES RHOADES keep labour lamb land landscape Lityerses living look mosaic mother mountain National Museum neighbour never night Nones fall olives Ovid owner oxen pasture planted pleasures plough Pompeii river Roman Rome season sheep shepherds shrine sing slaves soil song spring summer Theocritus threshed threshing-floor Tiberius Gracchus Tibullus town trees Varro VIII villa vines vineyards Virgil wall wild wine winter wood Xenophon yoke