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The womb only requires seed to become fruitful, whereas soil on a farm might need to be tilled, fertilized, and properly tended before it can adequately support crops. Indeed, what marks agricultural land as different from the rest of the countryside is that, like a raw material, it has undergone processes that manipulated and transformed it.

Thus, using the metaphor of soil as a raw material emphasizes the centrality of this change in status. This shift is reflected lexically. Unlike the more neutral terra, which has a broad spectrum of meanings Varro, Rust.

Furthermore, seges can signify both a crop and, by metonymy, the field in which that crop grows Christmann In fact, it is in growing a crop that a field ager becomes identified as seges Varro, Rust. Classifying land as an ager or a seges indicates that the soil has undergone a process driven by human agency.

In much the same way that crops are transformed by human intervention e. In the passages about the tasks which the agronomists indicate as necessary for treating and altering soil see, for instance, Cato, Agr. Considering that the Roman agronomists present untreated soil as a raw material and fields prepared for agricultural use as manufactured products, I address the implications this framework raises for our understanding of these writers and their authorial agendas.

The exploitation of natural resources is characteristic of colonialism and imperialism Jones and Phillips Thus, soil in the agricultural texts becomes another locus of the imperial project. When the agronomists describe farming and soil in ways that evoke the exploitation of raw materials, they align the goals and outlooks of Roman agriculture with those of Roman imperialism.

Green and Nelsestuen have shown how Varro depicts the ideal Roman farm as a microcosm of the empire. I take that argument a step further by suggesting that every farm and plowed field enacted the work of empire building. Works Cited Ando, C.

Christmann, E. Green, C. Ann Arbor. Jones, R. Keith, A. Mattingly, D. Nelsestuen, G. Columbus, OH. I'll give you supplementary lessons!

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