What is Columella?
{{Infobox writer <!-- For more information see [[:Template:Infobox Writer/doc]]. --> | name = Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella | image = Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella.jpg | image_size = 250 | alt = | caption = Portrait of Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella from [[Jean de Tournes]], ''Insignium aliquot virorum icones'', [[Lyon]], 1559 | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = 4 AD | birth_place = [[Cádiz|Gades]], [[Hispania Baetica]] | death_date = c. 70 AD | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = | language = | nationality = | ethnicity = | citizenship = Roman | notableworks = ''De re rustica'' | influences = | influenced = }} [[File:Columella.JPG|thumb|250px|Statue of Columella, holding a [[sickle]] and an [[yoke|ox-yoke]], in the Plaza de las Flores, [[Cádiz]]]] '''Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella''' (4 – 70 AD) was a famous Roman writer on agriculture.<ref>Silke Diederich (2016). ''Columella''. Oxford Bibliographies Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press.</ref> His De re rustica forms an important source on agriculture of Roman Empire. A genus of the Peruvian asterid ''Columellia'' was named in his honor.<ref>Joseph Fr. Michaud, Eugène Ernest Desplaces, Louis Gabriel Michaud (1854). ''Biographie universelle (Michaud) ancienne et moderne...'' Paris: Madame C. Desplaces. Volume 8, page 668</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{DEFAULTSORT:Columella}} [[Category:4 births]] [[Category:70 deaths]]