Geoponica 15.2: introduction and translation
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https://doi.org/10.34019/2318-3446.2023.v11.41541Keywords:
Geoponica, bougonia, Byzantine period, technical literatureAbstract
This paper proposes an introduction with general explanations about the technical collection from the Byzantine period, Geoponica, followed by a translation of section 15.2 into Portuguese. The work, which dates from the mid-10th century, was dedicated to Constantine VII Porphyrogenetus, Byzantine emperor born in 906 and died in 959, and was inserted, at the time, in the new historical approach of Antiquity to make encyclopaedic compilations of knowledge of the ancient world. The collection consisted of 20 books of technical content and dealt with the many facets of work in the fields. Section 15.2 contains one of the few detailed records of bougonia, the procedure for generating bees from a dead ox. The procedure is part of the cultural and folkloric framework of classical culture, and the text now translated into Portuguese acquires importance because, together with Virgil's Georgics 4, it offers a detailed description of the procedure.
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