Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic

Author/Contributor(s):	Nelsestuen, Grant a
Publisher:	Ohio State University Press
Date:	09/18/2016
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Argues that Varro's treatise provides his contemporaries with a model for governing the Roman state, anticipates Augustus' transformation of Roman dominion into a coherent territorial state, and offers an ancient theory of imperialism.