Food crops known from literary and documentary sources in Roman Italy and the empire
摘要
This article is a synthesis of scholarly research into the literary and documentary evidence for the food crops exploited or imported into Roman Italy or other regions in the Roman Empire. Special attention is devoted to the ongoing controversy regarding the relative importance of Watson’s Islamic Green Revolution (IGR) and what Fuks has described at the Roman Agricultural Diffusion (RAD) in promoting the diversification of food crops in the Mediterranean, Near East, Italy and Europe.