Cassianus Bassus

Cassianus Bassus est scriptor Graecus saec. 6 p. C. n. Conscripsit Ecloga de re rustica sive de agricultura, duodecim libris divisa, ubi multa sumpsit e libro antiquiore a Vindonio Anatolio scripto. Operis Cassiani Bassi nunc deperditi tria indicia habemus:

• Fons principalis erat operis saec. 10 cui titulus est Geoponica, imperatori Constantino Porphyrogenito dicati
• Opus Cassiani Bassi "in duodecim libris" lectus est breviterque recensus a Photio
• Translatio in lingua Persica mediaevali (Pahlavi) facta est saec. 6 vel 7; de ea duae translationes Arabicae facta sunt saeculis 8 et 9

Nexus externi

• 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.
• De Geoponicis disputatio Johannis N. Lupia anglice

Bibliographia

• B. Attié-Attié, "L’origine d’alfala ha ar-rumiya et du pseudo-Qustus" in Hespéris Tamuda vol. 13 (1972) pp. 139–81.
• E. Fehrle, Richtlinien zur Textgestaltung der griechischen Geoponica. Heidelberg 1920.
• 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.
• J. L. Teall, "The Byzantine agricultural tradition" in Dumbarton Oaks papers vol. 25 (1971) pp. 35-59.