Editing Agriculture in ancient Rome (section)

==Background==

The main texts of the Greco-Roman agricultural tradition are mostly from the Roman [[agronomists]]: [[Cato the Elder]]'s ''[[De agri cultura]]'', [[Columella]]'s ''De re rustica'', [[Marcus Terentius Varro]] and [[Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius|Palladius]]. Attributed to [[Mago (agricultural writer)|Mago the Carthaginian]], the agricultural treatise ''Rusticatio'', originally written in [[Punic]] and later translated into Greek and Latin, is now lost. Scholars speculate whether this text may have been an early source for agricultural traditions in the Near East and Classical world.<ref>{{cite book |last=Zadoks |first=Jan C. |title=Crop Protection in Medieval Agriculture: Studies in Pre-modern Organic Agriculture |date=16 October 2013 |publisher=Sidestone Press |isbn=9789088901874 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4ddfAQAAQBAJ}}</ref>