I. Cato

1. The Socio-economic Background to Cato's 'De agri cultura'

a) The Garden-plot as the Basis of Intensive Farming

b) The Demographic Pattern

c) Extensive Pasturage

d) The New Factors at Work in Cato's Day

e) The Devastation of South Italy and its Results

f) Man-power Losses

g) Increase in Extent of Public Land

h) Capital Investment in Land

i) Slaves as a Source of Man-power

2. Cato's Handbook

a) The Content of Cato's Handbook

b) Types of Farm Organization in Cato

c) The Catonian System in Operation

a') Ancillary Items

b') The Labour Force

d) Myth and Reality in the 'De agri cultura'

e) Cato's Personality

1. The Sasernas

2. Tremelius Scrofa

3. Scrofa's Opinions on Farm Management and Practice

The Emphasis in Varronian Studies. Scope of this Study

1. Varro's Method and Use of Sources

a) Some Preliminary Questions. 'De re rustica' a Neglected Treatise

b) Varro's 'De re rustica' - the Need for a New Approach

c) Technical Literature. Varro and the 'Handbook' tradition

d) Previous Writers Named by Varro

e) Varro's Use of his Predecessors. Views and Opinions

f) Varro and the 'Magonian Tradition'

g) The Problem of Varro's Relation to Theophrastus

h) Varro an Indifferent Copyist or 'Stubengelehrter'?

i) A Fresh Look at Varro's Use of Earlier Writers

j) Varro's Use of Theophrastus

k) Varro and Cato's 'De agri cultura'

l) Attitudes toward Cato's Work in Varro

2. The Content and Arrangement of Varro's Treatise 'De re rustica'

a) The Motivation

b) The Content of Book I

e) The Transition from Book I to Book II

d) Comparison of the Content of Books I and II

e) Possible Stages in the Writing and Publication of Varro's 'De re rustica'

3. Varro's Aim in Writing his 'De re rustica'

a) The Working Calendar and the Calendars in the Agronomists

b) The Etymological Element and Varro's Readers

4. Merits and Defects of the 'De re rustica'

I. Cato