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      • The Initial Investment
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      • The Value of Slaves
      • Why Wine? References
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Why Wine? References

  1. Carandini, A., 1983: "Columella's Vineyard and the Rationality of the Roman Economy," Opus 2, 177-204.
  2. Rathbone, D.W., 1981: "The Development of Agriculture in the Ager Cosanus During the Roman Republic: Problems of Evidence and Interpretation," Journal of Roman Studies 71, 10-23.
The Value of Slaves

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