Columella

Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella
Portrait of Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella from Jean de Tournes, Insignium aliquot virorum icones, Lyon, 1559
Born4 AD
Gades, Hispania Baetica
Diedc. 70 AD
CitizenshipRoman
Notable worksDe re rustica

Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella (4 – 70 AD) was a famous Roman writer on agriculture.[1] His De re rustica forms an important source on agriculture of Roman Empire. A genus of the Peruvian asterid Columellia was named in his honor.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Silke Diederich (2016). Columella. Oxford Bibliographies Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  2. ↑ Joseph Fr. Michaud, Eugène Ernest Desplaces, Louis Gabriel Michaud (1854). Biographie universelle (Michaud) ancienne et moderne... Paris: Madame C. Desplaces. Volume 8, page 668

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