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History of Horticulture: Lecture 181Lecture 18Lecture 18Roman Agricultural HistoryPompeii and Mount VesuviusView from the Tower of Mercury on the Pompeii city wall looking down the Via di Mercurio toward the forumHistory of Horticulture: Lecture 182Source: Harper Atlas of World History, 1992.Rome406–88 BCESource: Harper Atlas of World History, 1992.Rome 241–27 BCESource: Harper Atlas of World History, 1992.Rome 193–211History of Horticulture: Lecture 183Founded 814 BCE in North AfricaResult of Phoenician expansionNorth African city-state opposite SicilyMago, 350 BCE, Father of AgricultureAgricultural author wrote a 28 volume work in Punic,A language close to Hebrew.One who has bought land should sell his town house so that he will have no desire to worship the households of the city rather thanthose of the country; the man who takes great delight in his city residence will have no need of a country estate.Quotation from Columella after MagoRoman Senate ordered the translation of Mago upon the fall of Carthage despite violent enmity between states.CarthageCapitoline MuseumsHall of HannibalJacopo Ripanda(attr.)Hannibal in ItalyFrescoBeginning of 16thcentury Hannibal700 BCE Origin from Greek Expansion640–520 Etruscan civilization 509 Roman Republic264–261 Punic wars between Carthage and RomeRoman HistoryHistory of Horticulture: Lecture 184Debt to Greek, Egyptian, and Babylonian Science and EstheticsRoman expansion due to technology and organizationAgricultural TechnologyIrrigation GraftingViticulture and EnologyWide knowledge of fruit culture, pulses, wheatLegume rotationFertility appraisalsCold storage of fruitSpecularia—prototype greenhouse using micaOlive oil for cooking and lightRoman CultureHortus (gardens)Villa urbanaVilla rustica, little place in the countryFormal gardens of wealthyGarden elements Frescoed walls, statuary, fountains trellises, pergolas, flower boxes, shaded walks, terraces, topiaryOrnamental HorticultureSource: The Gardens of Pompeii, Jashemski, 1979.Getty Museum reconstruction of the Villa of the Papyri. Large peristyle garden.History of Horticulture: Lecture 185Source: The Gardens of Pompeii, Jashemski, 1979.Peristyle garden. House of the Little Fountain.Source: The Gardens of Pompeii, Jashemski, 1979.Peristyle garden. House of Venus Marina.Source: The Gardens of Pompeii, Jashemski, 1979.Vine-covered triclinium in the garden of the House of the Ephebe.Today glass protects Egyptian paintings on the triclinium.History of Horticulture: Lecture 186Pedestal in pool, PompeiiThe garden scene of which this is a part ran around all four walls.In the foreground of the fresco a simple wooden lattice fence encloses a green walk; a more complex fence with three repeated patterns surrounds the flowers, shrubs and fruit trees. (Late 1stcentury BCE)An Illustrated History of Gardening. Huxley, 1978The garden room in the Empress Livia’s Roman villa was subterranean—a cool place of escape in hot summer.Source: The Gardens of Pompeii, Jashemski, 1979.Garden painting. House of Venus Marina.History of Horticulture: Lecture 187Source: The Gardens of Pompeii, Jashemski, 1979.Garden paintings in room off the paristyle. House ofthe Fruit Orchard. Detail of painting on east wall.Source: The Gardens of Pompeii,Jashemski, 1979.Garden paintingon rear wall ofsmall raised gardenSource: The Gardens of Pompeii, Jashemski, 1979.The leaf, bud, blossom, and seedpod of the Indian lotus are accurately portrayed.The mongoose, hippopotamus, Egyptian cobra, sheldrake and songbirds are also pictured.Detail of Nile Mosaic from the House of the Faun now in the Naples Museum.History of Horticulture: Lecture 188Source: The Gardens of Pompeii, Jashemski, 1979.Isis ceremonyPainting from Herculaneum, now in Naples Museum.Source: The Gardens of Pompeii, Jashemski, 1979.Plums and quince in glass bowl. Wall painting in room 23.Villa at Torre Annunziata.Source: The Gardens of Pompeii, Jashemski, 1979.Basket of figs. Wall painting in triclinium.Villa at Torre Annunziata.History of Horticulture: Lecture 189Fruit in a glass bowlBirds and pearsSource: Hyams.Excavation showing drainage for Roman gardens, FishbourneHistory of Horticulture: Lecture 1810Source: The Gardens of Pompeii, Jashemski, 1979.Cupids gathering grapes from vines supported by treesSource: The Gardens of Pompeii, Jashemski, 1979.Cupids as wine dealers. House of the VettiiSource: The Gardens of Pompeii,Jashemski, 1979.Reconstructed wine press. Villa of the Mysteries.History of Horticulture: Lecture 1811Source: The Gardens of Pompeii, Jashemski, 1979.Cupids and psyches as flower dealers.Drawing of a painting, now longer in existence,which was in the macellum at Pompeii.Source: Singer.Wild rose on pedicelsSource: The Gardens of Pompeii, Jashemski, 1979.Detail of marble sculpture at entrance of the Eumachia.Acanthus pattern with birds,snail, rabbit, and bee.History of Horticulture: Lecture 1812Source: The Gardens of Pompeii,Jashemski, 1979.Flora, goddess of flowersIn the last Punic war Carthage was destroyed along with its agriculture.Building and walls were razed to the ground; the plough passed over the site, and salt was sown in the furrow made…A solemn curse was pronounced that neither house, nor crops, should ever rise again. B.B. Hallward. The Siege of Carthage. Cambridge Ancient History Vol VIIIFirst Use of Weed controlReligious PracticesBased on concept that operations of husbandry, like war, were in the hands of the gods.12 Priests of the Field, yearly sacrifice to LaresGoddesses: Flora, CeresGods: Segesta and Robigus (rust and mildew) Festival of RobigaliaFolk MagicMildew control by laurelMillet diseases controlled by carrying and burying a toadPower of virgins and menstrual bloodPest Control in Classical Greece and RomeHistory of Horticulture: Lecture 1813(unclear if fungal signs was cause or results of disease)Use of animal, vegetable and mineral productsJuice of house leekAmurcaWine and ashesSmokeBlood, fat, and oil (pruning knives)Extracts of bitter lupin and wild cucumberFungal Disease Control (rust and smut)(e.g. mice, moles, rats, weasels, bats, scorpions, and snakes)Bait and poisons included absinthe, asafoetida, aromatic plants, olive oil, amurca, bitumen, sulfur, burning sandarach (an arsenical), hellebore, hyocyamus, hemlock, and wild cucumber (Ecballium elaterium)Non-insect Pest ControlCaesaria,


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