The early villa : Roman contributions to the development of a Greek prototype / Mario Torelli -- The shepherd of the people : Varro on herding for the Villa Publica in De re rustica 2 / Carin M.C. Green -- Villaculture / John Bodel -- Cato's De agri cultura and the spectacle of expertise / Brendon Reay -- The enigma of "Catonian" villas : the De agri cultura in the context of second-century, BC, Italian architecture / Nicola Terrenato -- Republican villas in the suburbium of Rome / Rita Volpe -- Polygonal masonry and republican villas? : the problem of the basis villae / Jeffrey A. Becker -- Concluding remarks / Stephen L. Dyson