- Vindonius Anatolius
Vindonius Anatolius of
Beirut (also known as "Vindanius", "Vindanionius", "Berytius") was a Greek author of the 4th century, and may be identical with the praetor of the Roman province ofIllyricum mentioned byAmmianus Marcellinus .He was the author of a "Collection of agricultural practices" based on numerous earlier authors including
Julius Africanus , pseudo-Democritus, pseudo-Apuleius, theQuintili ,Florentinus andTarentinus . The work of Vindonius is lost, but there is some evidence of its contents:*It was the major source of the 6th century work of Cassiani Bassi, "Eclogae de re rustica", which is also lost but was excerpted in the "
Geoponica ", a surviving 10th century text.
*Photius included a notice of Vondonius's work in his "Bibliotheca" (codex 163).
*A Syriac translation was made in the 6th or 7th century, and Arabic and Armenian translations were made from this in the 9th and 10th centuries.
*One page of the original work survives inBibliothèque Nationale MS B.N.Gr. 2313 f. 49v.External links
* [http://www.doaks.org/ByzGarden/ByzGarch8.pdf R. Rodgers, "Kêpopoiïa: Garden-Making and Garden Culture in the Greek "Geoponica"," in Byzantine Garden Culture, ed. A. Littlewood et al. (Washington, 2002), 159-175.]
Bibliography
*H. Beckh, "De Geoponicorum codicibus manuscriptis" in "Acta seminarii philologici Erlangensis" vol. 4 (1886) pp. 268–70.
*E. Fehrle, "Richtlinien zur Textgestaltung der griechischen Geoponica". Heidelberg 1920.
*John A. C. Greppin, "The Armenians and the Greek Geoponica" in "Byzantion" vol. 57 (1987) pp. 46-55.
*J. F. Habbi, "Testi geoponici classici in siriaco e in arabo" in "Autori classici in lingue del vicino e medio oriente" ed. G. Fiaccadori (Rome, 1990) pp. 77–92.
*A. Paul de Lagarde, "Geoponicon in sermonem syriacum versorum quae supersunt". Leipzig: Teubner, 1860.
*E. Oder, "Beiträge zur Geschichte der Landwirthschaft bei den Griechen" in "Rheinisches Museum" vol. 45 (1890) pp. 58-98, 202-22, vol. 48 (1893) pp. 1-40.
*R. H. Rodgers, "Hail, Frost, and Pests in the Vineyard: Anatolius of Berytus as a Source for the Nabataean Agriculture" in "Journal of the American Oriental Societies" vol. 100 (1980) pp. 1–11.
*J. L. Teall, "The Byzantine agricultural tradition" in "Dumbarton Oaks papers" vol. 25 (1971) pp. 35-59.
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