AVITAE Latin texts
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AVITAE AV irtual Intertextual T our across Ancient Entrepreneurship
Transcript of AVITAE Latin texts
AVITAEA Virtual Intertextual Tour across
Ancient Entrepreneurship
LATIN TEXTS•• 1. Marcus Porcius Cato, De Agri Cultura
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• 2. M. Terentius Varro, Rerum Rusticarum
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• 3. G. Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico
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• 4. P. Vergilius Maro, Georgic
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• 5. Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita•
• 6. Pliny the Younger, Letters
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• 7. Martial, Epigrams
Marcus Porcius Cato (B.C. 234-149) De
Agri Cultura, Praefatio
About profits and risks of business enterprises, with a
comparison between traders and farmers.
M. Terentius Varro (B.C. 116-28)
Rerum Rusticarum, II 21 ss.about agriculture and other economic activities
which might be more or less directly connected
with agriculture
G. Julius Caesar (July 100 – 15 March 44 BC): De Bello
Gallico, I 1 and 39; II 15
about Roman merchants,
who travel across the
borders and bring Roman
civilization (for good and for
bad) even farther than the
Roman army does
Ekonomikrisis, a model
entrepreneur
P. Vergilius Maro (October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC),
Georgics, 1 ss.
about land management
Titus Livius (64 or 59 BC – AD 17)
Ab urbe condita 21.63about social consideration of
mechants and traders in Rome
Pliny the Younger (61 – c. 113)
Letters 8.2.1about the management of the author’s estate,
discussing profits and losses
balancing entrepreneurship, risk and ethics
Martial, Epigrams VII 61(March 1, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD)
against the crowd of small traders in the
streets of Rome
