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This study explores the portrayal of laborers in Columella’s Book 10 and its implications for horticulture.

Laboring in the Garden: Exhortations to Horticulture in Columella’s Garden Poem

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This analysis examines labor participation in agriculture through Columella’s horticultural poem, highlighting social implications.

This study explores the portrayal of laborers in Columella’s Book 10 and its implications for horticulture.
Literary analysis of Columella’s Book 10 in De re rustica
Examination of the relationship between gardening and labor
Discussion of the economic effects of labor representation
Columella emphasizes labor to promote elite involvement in agriculture
The poem connects the garden and agricultural estate conceptually
Gardening is shown as both a practical and economically beneficial activity for the master

Steven Gonzalez (2026) studied this question.

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