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Gratvm Opvs Agricolis - K. D. White: Roman Farming. (Aspects of Greek and Roman Life.) Pp. 536; 81 plates, 12 line-drawings, maps, and plans. London: Thames & Hudson, 1970. Cloth, £4·50. - K. D. White: A Bibliography of Roman Agriculture. (Bibliographies in Agricultural History, no. 1.) Pp. xxviii+63. Reading: University of Reading, Institute of Agricultural History, 1970. Paper, 85p.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2009

J. A. Richmond
J. A. Richmond
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University College, Dublin
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The Classical Review , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , December 1972 , pp. 389 - 392
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page 390 note 1 White seems anxious to combat the traditional view that latifundia perdidere Italiam. Despite White's article (B.I.C.S. xiv [1967], 62 sq.) the present reviewer is not convinced that latifundia did not cause depopulation and rural decay over much of Italy.

page 390 note 2 Add arbutus, cornus, corulus; the glandiferae (Plin. xvi. 6 sq.) also merit mention.

page 390 note 3 What would the author say to a student who referred him to ‘a well-known Attic vase’ (227)?

page 391 note 1 Cf. Crawford himself in Encyclopaedia Britannica 13, Supp. i. 197.

page 391 note 2 Cf. Rose, V., Anecdota Graeca et Graecolatina ii (Berlin, 1870), 129 sq.Google Scholar; ‘fragment (2)’ discusses much more than fruit.

page 391 note 3 Cf. Pliny xv. 9.

page 391 note 4 I see that Heitland (Agricola [Cambridge, 1921], 168) has made this point.

page 391 note 5 How does he reconcile this statement with the figures (Roman 42, U.K. 20 mandays per acre) on p. 414?

page 391 note 6 The conclusions on p. 183 take no account of the comparison with New England on p. 414.

page 392 note 1 I should add to the Bibliography: F. Orth, Der Feldbau der Römer, Prog. Frankf.- a.-M., 1900; Keightley, T., Notes on the Bucolics and Georgics of Virgil, London, 1846Google Scholar; Makkonen, O., Ancient Forestry: an Historical Study, i–ii, Helsinki, 1967–1969.Google Scholar