Note 105 — PART II

The result of the work done during the last twenty years by German writers, such as W. Christ, Geschichte des griechischen Litteratur, ed. 3 (München, 1898), p. 664 f.; E. Oder, in Pauly-Winowa Real Enc. (Stuttgart, 1910), VII., 1221-1225; and F. Lübker, Reallexikon des klassischen Altertums (Leipzig, 1914), p. 409, seems to show that our Geoponika is a reduction, c. 950 a.d., by an unknown hand of an older compilation made in the sixth century by Cassianus Bassus. Behind him in turn are older works of the fourth century, viz. the συναγωγὴ γεωργικῶν of Vindanius Anatolius in twelve books, and the γεωργικά of the younger Didymos of Alexandreia in fifteen books. Ultimately we get back to Cassius Dionysius of Utica, who translated the Carthaginian Mazo’s work on agriculture (88 b.c.).