ROMAN AGRONOMIC KNOWLEDGE OF VITICULTURE THROUGH LUCIUS COLUMELLA AND HIS UNCLE MARCUS IN HISPANIA
ROMAN AGRONOMIC KNOWLEDGE OF VITICULTURE THROUGH LUCIUS COLUMELLA AND HIS UNCLE MARCUS IN HISPANIA

Summary/Abstract: Agriculture in the ancient world is the most important economic activity from a quantitative point of view. Within the ancient knowledge of the countryside, agronomy was the fundamental science, originally developed by the Romans and whose influence would remain well into modern times. In this article, we analyse Latin agronomic sources from three perspectives. First, we look at the sources and origins of these agronomists. Second, analysing the diffusion they would have among their contemporaries. Thirdly, to see the permanence of these sources in other historical moments, such as late antiquity, the Muslim and Christian medieval periods. We will focus on the case of Columella and the Lower Guadalquivir region in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Columella was the most important author for viticulture, who has an important later influence and a source of information on his uncle Marcus Columella, a farmer from Baetica

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