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Aug 2, 2024 · Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum ( Antiquities of Human and Divine Things) [1] was one of the chief works of Marcus Terentius Varro (1st century BC). The work has been lost, but having been substantially quoted by Augustine in his De Civitate Dei (published AD 426) its contents can be reconstructed in parts. To a lesser ...
4 days ago · The new interlocutors were Marcus Terentius Varro, who was a follower of Antiochus, and Titus Pomponius Atticus, an Epicurean. This edition was set in the spring of 45 BCE, at Varro's villa on Lucrine Lake .
Aug 3, 2024 · These were Marcus Porcius Cato (234–149 bce) and Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 bce). Already in Cato’s time, emphasis was on production of wine and oil for sale, rather than cultivation of cereal crops, beyond the volume required to feed animals and slaves.
2 days ago · The Roman statesman Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BC) wrote, in his Rerum rusticarum libri III (Three Books on Agriculture, 36 BC): "Precautions must also be taken in the neighborhood of swamps... because there are bred certain minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, which float in the air and enter the body through the ...
4 days ago · By paying him a gracious, if subtle, compliment in the Preface, Pliny acknowledges his debt to Varro and locates his own work in the proper tradition. Varro was for Pliny, as he was later for...
Jul 25, 2024 · Venus, ancient Italian goddess associated with cultivated fields and gardens and later identified by the Romans with the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite. Venus had no worship in Rome in early times, as the scholar Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 bce) shows, attesting that he could find no mention.
Jul 31, 2024 · "Varro, Marcus Terentius" published on by Oxford University Press. (116–27 bc)Roman polymath, whose work De lingua latina (‘On the Latin language’) is partly extant. Of
