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Modern Authors:
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A
David Abulafia, The Great Sea
Helena Atlee, The Land Where Lemons Grow
Françoise Argot-Dutard, Pascal Charvet, Sandrine Lavaud (eds.), Voyage aux pays du vin
B
Isaac Bashevis Singer, In My Father’s Court
Mary Beard, Pompeii: the Life of a Roman Town
Mary Beard, SPQR
Esther Benbassa, The Jews of France: a History from Antiquity to the Present
Raymond Billiard, La Vigne dans l’Antiquité
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Physiologie du gout
C
Raymond Carr (ed.), Spain: a History
Theodore Andrea Cook, Old Provence
D
Gillian Darley, Vesuvius
WD Davies, Louis Finkelstein (series eds.), The Cambridge History of Judaism
Roger Dion, Histoire de la vigne et du vin en France des origines au XIXe siècle
E
Robert Étienne et Françoise Mayet, Le Vin hispanique
Harry Eyres, Horace and Me: Life Lessons From an Ancient Poet
F
Stuart Fleming, Vinum: The Story of Roman Wine
Harry Freedman, The Talmud: a Biography
G
Gilbert Garrier, Histoire sociale et culturelle du vin
Martin Goodman, Rome and Jerusalem: the Clash of Ancient Civilizations
H
Charlotte Higgins, Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain
Tom Holland, Rubicon: the Last Years of the Roman Republic
John Hooper, The Italians
Robert Hughes, Rome: a Cultural, Visual and Personal History
J
Julian Jeffs, Sherry
Hugh Johnson, The Story of Wine
K
Melvin Konner, Unsettled: an Anthropology of the Jews
Gisela H Kreglinger, The Spirituality of Wine
L
DH Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia
Paul Lukacs, Inventing Wine: a New History of One of the World’s Most Ancient Pleasures
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M
Patrick E McGovern, Stuart J Fleming, Solomon H Katz (eds.), The Origins and Ancient History of Wine
Maria Rosa Menocal, The Ornament of the World
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N
Bill Nesto and Frances Di Savino, The World of Sicilian Wine
John Julius Norwich, Sicily: an Island at the Crossroads of Sicily
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P
Jean-Robert Pitte, Le Désir du vin à la conquête du monde
R
Jancis Robinson, The Oxford Companion to Wine
Jancis Robinson, Julia Harding, José Vouillamoz, Wine Grapes: a Complete Guide to 1,368 Vine Varieties, Including Their Origins and Flavours
Claudia Roden, The Book of Jewish Food: an Odyssey From Samarkand to New York
Claudia Roden, The Food of Spain
S
Simon Schama: The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BCE-1492 CE
Michael Sheridan, Romans: Their Lives and Times
Roy Strong, Feast: a History of Grand Eating
T
André Tchernia, Le Vin de l’Italie romaine
André Tchernia, Jean Pierre Brun, Le Vin romain antique
Colin Thubron, Jerusalem
U
Tim Unwin, Wine and the Vine
W
Jeremy Watson, The New and Classic Wines of Spain
Y
William Younger, Gods, Men and Wine
Websites I found useful:
Naples: Life, Death & Miracles
I’d also recommend the In Our Time podcast, which often has segments on Roman Britain, and the Food Programme – both at www.bbc.co.uk
Classical Authors:
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I am grateful to various translators, living and dead, but for reasons of simplicity I am here just listing the originals, with authors’ dates.
9th or 8th century BC
Homer, The Odyssey
480 – 406 BC
Euripides, The Bacchae
234 – 149 BC
Cato (Marcus Porcius Cato), On Agriculture
116 – 27 BC
Marcus Terentius Varro: On Agriculture
107 – 43BC
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Letters; Trials
100 – 44 BC
Julius Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar), The Gallic Wars
84 – 54? BC
Gaius Valerius Catullus, Poems
70 – 19 BC
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), The Georgics; The Eclogues
65 – 8 BC
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), The Odes
64 BC – 24 AD
Strabo, The Geography
59 BC – 17 AD
Livy (Titus Livius), The History of Rome
4 – 70 AD
Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella, Res Rustica
23 – 79 AD
Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus), Natural History
37 – 100 AD
Josephus (Joseph ben Matthias, later Titus Flavius Josephus), Jewish Antiquities; The Jewish War
38–41? – 103 AD
Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis), Epigrams
46 –120 AD
Plutarch (Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus), Lives; Moralia
55–60? – 127 AD
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis), (), The Satires
58 – 120AD
Tacitus (Publius Cornelius Tacitus), Agricola
310 – 395 AD
Ausonius (Decimius Magnus Ausonius), The Works of Ausonius