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  1. Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BC) was a Roman polymath and a prolific author. He is regarded as ancient Rome 's greatest scholar, and was described by Petrarch as "the third great light of Rome" (after Virgil and Cicero ). [1]

  2. Apr 12, 2024 · Marcus Terentius Varro (born 116 bc, probably Reate, Italy—died 27 bc) was Romes greatest scholar and a satirist of stature, best known for his Saturae Menippeae (“Menippean Satires”). He was a man of immense learning and a prolific author.

  3. Marcus Terentius Varro wrote some 620 books, but only the nearest and dearest to his heart – Rerum Rusticarum Libri Tres, Three Books on Farming – survived in complete form. That’s probably because enough people had one copied out to increase the odds of its survival into the age of the printing press.

  4. www.encyclopedia.com › classical-literature-biographies › marcus-terentius-varroMarcus Terentius Varro | Encyclopedia.com

    May 21, 2018 · Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 B.C.) was the greatest Roman scholar and an incredibly prolific writer. It is estimated that he wrote 74 separate works in 620 volumes on all aspects of contemporary learning.

  5. Jun 30, 2014 · Marcus Terentius Varro (b. 116–d. 27 BCE) was the most notable polymath of the Roman world. Over the course of his long life, which spanned several of the major events of the late Republic and the birth of the empire, his career brought him to the fore of politics, military service, and (most significantly) scholarship.

  6. Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus (116 – soon after 56 BC), younger brother of the more famous Lucius Licinius Lucullus, was a supporter of Lucius Cornelius Sulla and consul of ancient Rome in 73 BC. As proconsul of Macedonia in 72 BC, he defeated the Bessi in Thrace and advanced to the Danube and the west coast of the Black Sea .

  7. "Terentius Varro, Marcus" published on by Oxford University Press. Varro (according to Petrarch) was “the third great light of Rome”—after Vergil and Cicero—and certainly Rome's greatest scholar.

  8. Oct 29, 2021 · Marcus Terentius Varro was probably born in Reate (now Rieti in Italy) in 116 BCE. Called Varro of Reate (Reatinus), unlike the poet Varro of Atax. He was a Roman scholar and writer, and in his political career, he came to the office of praetor.

  9. VARRO, MARCUS TERENTIUS ° (116–27 b.c.e.), Roman scholar. Varro mentions the date palms of Judea ( De re rustica 2:1, 27). Augustine reports that Varro identified the Jewish God with Jupiter ( De consensu Evangelistarum 1:30, 31, 42). Elsewhere he notes that Varro, in praising a bygone era when Romans did not use images in worshiping gods ...

  10. Nov 27, 2022 · Marcus Terentius Varro (116 BCE–27 BCE) was a Roman scholar and author of a wide array of treatises, most of which are now lost. Res Rusticae (country matters) is a series of meditations and instructions on farming, winemaking, beekeeping and other agricultural issues.

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