De re rustica
On Agriculture
Author
Language
Year
37 BCE
Country
Late Roman Republic
Genre
Nonfiction / Essays / Treatise
ancient world
graeco-roman
De re rustica, also known as Res rusticae, Rerum rusticarum libri tres, and On Agriculture, is a work consisting of 3 books about the management of large slave-run estates and general agriculture by Varro. It was published in c. 37 BC, and was written by Varro when he was 80 years old.Wikipedia →