Classical Studies : Agriculture:
a guide to library resources
Contents:
Starting points |Finding books | Finding journal articles etc. |
Related Classical Studies library guides which may be helpful:
Economic Issues | Geography & Environment | History & Society |
STARTING POINTS
The following is a selection of overviews on ancient agriculture topics
Ancient Greek agriculture : an introduction (1992) [print]
[Examines the art of cultivation, the tools, technique, plants cultivated, and animals raised based upon a close study of contemporary sources]
Human landscapes in classical antiquity: environment and culture (1996) [print]
[Looks at the relationship of the Greeks and Romans with their environment including the impact of agricultural development]
Land and labor in the Greek world (1993) [print]
[Examines the Greeks' preoccupation with land and agriculture as a way of understanding the nature of their society in general]
Landuse in the Roman empire (1994) [print]
[Explores various aspects of landuse in the Roman Empire including Roman agriculture]
Pan's travail : environmental problems of the ancient Greeks and Romans (1993) [print]
[Provides a picture of the relationship of the Greeks & Romans to their environment]
FINDING BOOKS USING THE LIBRARY CATALOGUE
Books can be found by searching the library catalogue. The following are terms which can be browsed using the Subject Heading option:
- Agriculture Europe History
- Agriculture Greece
- Agriculture Rome
- Agriculture History
- Agricultural implements Rome
- Agricultural laws and legislation Rome
- Agricultural laborers Greece History
- Agricultural laborers Rome
- Ecology Greece History
- Ecology Rome History
Economic history to 500 - Food supply Greece History
- Food supply Rome
- Land tenure Greece History
- Land tenure Rome
- Technology Greece History
- Technology Rome
Or construct your own keyword searches. Here are some examples:
topic: the role of technology in Roman agricultural practice
suggested search: agricultur? and technology and roman
topic: famines in the Roman world
suggested search: "food supply" and famine? and rome
topic: the state of the environment in ancient Greece
suggested search: (ecology or environment?) and greece and history
Click here if you need help with constructing searches using techniques such as truncation and Boolean operators
FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES USING DATABASES & BIBLIOGRAPHIES
The following sources are primarily for locating journal articles on a topic, but most of them also include references to books as well.
Journal articles can be found using databases listed in the Databases for Classics guide. Another database to consider using is the major agricultural database Agricola which covers some agricultural history topics.
Remember that no one electronic database covers Classics comprehensively, so if you need to conduct a thorough literature search, consult the printed bibliography entitled L'Annee philologique - see Section VIII.E : Agriculture et zoo in each annual printed volume for agricultural topics. If you're unfamiliar with L'Annee philologique, read this description before attempting to use it.
The following bibliographies may also assist with literature searching:
Bibliographie zur romischen Agrargeschichte (1991) [print]
[Bibliography on Roman agricultural history]
Bibliography of Italian Land Use and Settlement in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (2001) [web access]
Bibliography of Roman agriculture (1970) [print]
[Selective annotated bibliography which excludes the eastern provinces and has only limited references to Egypt]
Bibliography of the late antique economy in the Eastern Roman Empire (2001) [web access]
[Includes references to agriculture and food supply]
Late Roman food supply: a bibliography (1998) [web access]
[A bibliography of books & journal articles covering food and agriculture in Late Antiquity]
Late Roman grain supply : a bibliography (2001) [web access]
[A bibliography of books & journal articles on grain supply in Late Antiquity]
This page is maintained by Jennifer Osborn
Last update: 11 September 2007
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