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Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella () was a Roman writer on agriculture in the Roman Empire.

His in twelve volumes has been completely preserved and forms an important source on Roman agriculture and cuisine, together with the works of Cato the Elder and Marcus Terentius Varro, both of which he occasionally cites. A smaller book on trees, , is usually attributed to him.

In 1794 the Spanish botanists José Antonio Pavón Jiménez and Hipólito Ruiz López named a genus of Peruvian asterid Columellia in his honour.

Further reading

  • Baldwin, Barry. 1963. "Columella's Sources and How He Used Them." Latomus 22:785–791.
  • Bertoni, D. 2017. "Geometry and Genre in Columella". American Journal of Philology. 138.3: 527-554.
  • Carandini, Andrea. 1983. "Columella's Vineyard and the Rationality of the Roman Economy." Opus 2:177–204.
  • Carroll, Peter D. 1976. "Columella the Reformer." Latomus 35:783–790.
  • Doody, Aude. 2007. "Virgil the Farmer? Critiques of the Georgics in Columella and Pliny." Classical Philology. 102.2: 180-197.
  • Dumont, Jean Christian. 2008. "Columella and Vergil." Vergilius 54:49–59.
  • Forster, E. S. 1950. "Columella and His Latin Treatise on Agriculture." Greece and Rome 19:123–128.
  • Gowers, Emily. 2000. "Vegetable Love: Virgil, Columella, and Garden Poetry." Ramus 29:127–148.
  • Henderson, John. 2002. "Columella's Living Hedge: the Roman Gardening Book." The Journal of Roman Studies 92: 110-133.
  • Mielke, Lars. 2024. Spaliere für Silvinus: Charakterschulung in Columellas Werk über die Landwirtschaft. Hypomnemata, vol. 219. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, (Review by James L. Zainaldin at Bryn Mawr Classical Review).
  • Olson, L. 1943. "Columella and the Beginning of Soil Science." Agricultural History 17:65–72.
  • Requejo, A. 2017. "Columella's Georgics: Form, Method, Intertextuality, Ideology." U.W. Seattle, PhD dissertation
  • Works by Columella at Perseus Digital Library
  • Complete text in Latin at The Latin Library
  • Books I‑IV in English translation at LacusCurtius