Allegories of Farming from Greece and Rome

Kronenberg, Leah

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“…Orata and Murena appear to be fish but are really clever businessmen. 67 Similarly, the younger Philippus, Hortensius and Lucullus appear to be nobiles but are instead fish enthusiasts, as Varro shows in his full treatment of fishponds later in Book 3 (Rust. 3.17.5-9).…”

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C. Sergius Orata and the Rhetoric of Fishponds

Bannon

2014

The Class. Q.

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C. Sergius Orata was famous for the oysters that he raised on the Lucrine lake, where he also bought and renovated villas, reselling them at a profit. His oysters changed the market for gourmet seafood by creating a new standard in taste around 100b.c.,and he grew rich enough from this trade to enjoy the luxuries that he purveyed. He was a path-breaking entrepreneur in luxury goods, ‘the first Campanian speculator to cater to the leisure of the great grandees’, as D'Arms described him. Instructive as this interpretation is, it does not address the way Orata is presented in the sources. While the ‘facts’ may be reliable enough to establish a biographical sketch, their presentation has another story to tell because Orata is known from rhetorically coloured portraits that reveal less about him as an individual than about elite identity generally. Fish and fishponds were a favourite target of Roman moralizers concerned with elite behaviour and attitudes. Oysters in particular have a long history as a signal luxury. Orata is a prime example in this tradition, and his name became nearly a trope: ‘Orata’, as I will write when I mean this reputation and not the man himself. Acognomenwas a sign of family identity, but it also could be used as an indicator of character. Although Kajanto rejects this interpretation of Orata's name because of its association with fish, it is the very association with fish that made his name powerful as a literary example, whether or not it reflects anything about his actual personality. No more can be said about the Orata family reputation because he is the only man with thiscognomenin our sources. For Roman moralizers, ‘Orata’ represented the contested relationship between wealth, commerce and status, because his oyster ponds were both a symbolic luxury and a commercial success.

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C. Sergius Orata and the Rhetoric of Fishponds

Bannon

2014

The Class. Q.

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“…Leah Kronenberg (2009) defende a tese de que a obra de Varrão, assim como aquela de Xenofonte, não deve ser entendida ao pé da letra, mas que, antes, as duas expõem de maneira irônico-paródica, certos deficites da parte dos interlocutores. Iscômaco não é, obviamente, alguém para se levar a sério como agricultor e é, como interlocutor, uma contrafigura de Sócrates, desenhada parodicamente.…”

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Modos absolutos e relativos de julgar em Xenofonte e Varrão – Elementos de uma gramática cultural comparada

Rumpf

2023

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Com base em um estudo detalhado de Varrão, De re rustica 1,23, e Xenofonte, Oeconomicus 16, o objetivo deste artigo é identificar alguns padrões típicos que poderiam ser úteis para uma análise comparada de certos modos de pensar de longue durée romanos em oposição aos gregos. Em foco estão especialmente os modos de julgar (neste caso, a qualidade de um terreno), que tendem a ser absolutos em Xenofonte e relativos em Varrão. Duma maneira comparável àquela que foi descrita pelo autor num trabalho anterior sobre Políbio e Lívio, manifestam-se diferenças estruturais específicas. Nos textos gregos, os juízos em geral se fazem num quadro predefinido teoricamente, enquanto que nos textos romanos os modos de pensar são mais flexíveis e mais abertos a desenvolvimentos imprevistos. Em termos linguísticos, isso se reflete nas maneiras de usar formas superlativas (nos textos gregos) e comparativas (nos romanos). Em termos de história social, estas diferenças podem ser interpretadas como indicadores de formas diversas da ética de trabalho.

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“…(3) M.V. Alberecht(1997) 4) (1) L. Kronenberg(2009) Bakhtin(1984), p.114. (3) B. L. Ullman(1931), "Satura and Satire", CPh 8, p. 188.…”

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الصراع بین الإنسان والزمن : دراسة تحلیلیة للهجائیة السابعة والتسعین "Sexsgesis" من دیوان الساتورا المینیبیة لفارو

حسن¹

2021

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The conflict between Man and Time: An Analytical Study for the Ninety-seventh satire "Sexagesis" of Varro' Saturae MenippeaeThe conflict Between Man and Time is an eternal conflict in which Time often defeats man, Because Human can't complet his life without Time, but Time passes without Human. Many literary and philosophical writings have dealt with this conflict, and I have tried through this study of the satire (Sexagesis) by Marcus Terentius Varro to explain his vision of Time and its relationship with man, and how Time affected the satire's hero, and what changes he listed to clarify the past time has become now, and reasons that prompted Varro to using time in comparison.Varro presents through this satire"Man's conflict with Time" as he embodied through the old man's character the features of the past and the present. Moreover, he explains the inevitability time's victory and of its Human's oppression.Varro was constantly caring about Rome's past, he was always nostalgic for the past, and he compared it with the current state in which Rome was. Therefore, we can consider his writings in the Roman past as an attempt to put Roman culture equal for Greek culture, and his return back with his writings, especially in this satire, is evidence the position of Rome that he whould like to see at his time.

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Allegories of Farming from Greece and Rome

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C. Sergius Orata and the Rhetoric of Fishponds

C. Sergius Orata and the Rhetoric of Fishponds

Modos absolutos e relativos de julgar em Xenofonte e Varrão – Elementos de uma gramática cultural comparada

الصراع بین الإنسان والزمن : دراسة تحلیلیة للهجائیة السابعة والتسعین "Sexsgesis" من دیوان الساتورا المینیبیة لفارو

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