Shepherds, farmers, gods

It was always the peasants who ceaselessly created the conditions for the intellectual and urban development of Roman antiquity. Without the harvests from the Italian fields, not even the development of crafts would have been possible in Rome. Even the successes of the Roman army and the Romanization of the vast empire only succeeded because thousands upon thousands of farmers supplied the legions. Werner Tietz has given them a well-deserved memorial in his work. The author presents the most important plants and animals, which formed the basis of the Roman supply, and describes vividly the life and economy on the small farms of the simple farmers as on the latifundia of the senators in the days of the Republic, but also the industrial production on the huge state domains of the imperial era. He reports on the often miserable Das.