A Hearth Library collection
Kitchen, Farm and Fable
Recipes, farm work, animals, fables and lessons in Greek, Latin, Chinese and Japanese
The ancient world at home. Cookbooks, farm calendars, a husband teaching his wife to run a house, animals described by naturalists, fables and children's primers, read in the original with a word-by-word guide. These are the everyday texts behind the Word for Word games on Hearth Games.
Teach this collection
Classroom units on Hearth Learning. Each asks one big question and gathers its sources, teacher notes, a worksheet for each source and a download for your LMS.
- Unit 1Running a home and a farmWhat did ancient writers think a well-run home or farm needed, and who did the work?3 sources
- Unit 2Learning and good conductHow did ancient teachers say people should learn and treat one another?2 sources
Sources
Literature
Sayings on learning, friends and family
Confucius, about 400 BCE, State of Lu
Classical ChineseChecked
Philosophy and right livingSchools and teachingFamily and loss
Dialogue
A young wife learns to run the house
Xenophon, about 360 BCE; the exact year is not known, Athens
GreekChecked
Family and lossHomes, towns and buildingPhilosophy and right living
Recipes
Roman recipes
Apicius, Compiled about 300–500 from older recipes; the surviving manuscripts were copied in the 800s, The Roman Empire
LatinChecked
Cooking and recipesFood, farming and hunger
Manual
How to run a farm
Cato, mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life, Rome
LatinChecked
Food, farming and hungerCooking and recipesSlavery and forced labor
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