Columella

…Columella, writing later in the first century of the Common Era, was somewhat more enlightened in his approach he advocated for treating enslaved workers with at least enough consideration to maintain their morale on the practical grounds that miserable workers were less productive than workers who had some reason to care about their performance.…

…Columella, a first-century agricultural writer whose 12-volume work on farming is one of the most comprehensive documents of Roman agricultural practice, devoted considerable attention to cheese production, covering everything from the selection of appropriate rennet he recommended using wild artichoke flour, fig sap, or lamb stomach, to the proper manageme…