Dear colleagues, Thanks to all of you who responded with very helpful recommendations. I have listed a few of them here for anyone who might be interested. Isager,S. and J.E. Skydsgaard. Ancient Greek Agriculture. An Introduction, Routledge, London and New York (1992) Columella, De Re Rustica Michael MacKinnon. Production and Consumption of Animals in Roman Italy: Integrating the Zooarchaeological and Textual Evidence Mlekuz, Dimitrij. "Who were the Cyclopes? Odyssey and Neolithic, Eneolithic and Bronze age pastoralists from the east Adriatic coast and Dinarides" available at http://arheologija.ff.uni-lj.si/mlekuz/Mlekuz_festschrift.pdf "The Georgics" by Virgil Best, Ben Arbuckle