This volume starts from a reconsideration of the idea that ancient perceptions of the non-human world rested on the profound belief in universal order and therefore paid little attention to variety, irregularity, and change. Focusing on the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, this book seeks to present long-term dynamics in environmental interactions. It traces another sense of environmental awareness, one that paid equal attention to chance and chaos, and even reflected on the, at times, fatal consequences of human intervention in nature. Contributors from across the globe examine the…mehr
This volume starts from a reconsideration of the idea that ancient perceptions of the non-human world rested on the profound belief in universal order and therefore paid little attention to variety, irregularity, and change. Focusing on the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, this book seeks to present long-term dynamics in environmental interactions. It traces another sense of environmental awareness, one that paid equal attention to chance and chaos, and even reflected on the, at times, fatal consequences of human intervention in nature. Contributors from across the globe examine the transformation and co-construction of ancient landscapes through natural and human processes. Their essays consider a range of evidence, from myths and philosophical treatises to epigraphic evidence and archaeological remains, but they all reveal the ways in which humankind constructs stories about its environment - and how these stories facilitate the construction of ancient environments as living entities, respondent (maybe even vulnerable) to human actions and decision-making.
Esther Eidinow is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol, UK. She is a series editor for the Bloomsbury series Ancient Environments, and, among many other publications, is author of Luck, Fate, and Fortune: Antiquity and its Legacy (Bloomsbury 2011) and co-editor of Ancient Divination and Experience (2019). Christopher Schliephake is Assistant Professor of Ancient History at Augsburg University, Germany. His books include The Environmental Humanities and the Ancient World (2020) and as editor Ecocritisim, Ecology and Cultures in Antiquity (2017).
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List of Contributors Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction, Esther Eidinow and Christopher Schliephake I. Control 1. Perilous Environs: The Rustic World in Aratus and Nicander, Leonardo Cazzadori 2. Shared Suffering and Cyclical Destruction: Failures of Environmental Control in the Aeneid, Aaron M. Seider 3. Chaos and Kosmos: An Ecocritical Reading of Seneca's Thyestes, Simona Martorana II. Connection 4. The Interspecies and Trans-Corporeal Mesh in Euripides' Bacchae, Maria Combatti 5. The Relationality of Darkness in Thucydides, Esther Eidinow 6. The Only Constant Is Change - The Environmental Dimension of Plutarch's De defectu oraculorum, Christopher Schliephake III. Contact 7. Poseidon's Mode of Action: Divine Agency and the Helike Disaster, Michiel van Veldhuizen 8. River, Agency, and Gender: An Ecocritical Reading of the Myths of the Tiber, Kresimir Vukovic 9. Ecological Grief and the Safaitic Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia, Eris Williams Reed IV. Change 10. Ecological Grief in Aelius Aristides and Philostratus, Jason König 11. An Allegory of the 'Anthropocene': Environmental and textual disorder in Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae, Marco Formisano 12. The Environmental Ethics of Delphi: Back-filling Latour's Facing Gaia, Mark D. Usher
List of Contributors Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction, Esther Eidinow and Christopher Schliephake I. Control 1. Perilous Environs: The Rustic World in Aratus and Nicander, Leonardo Cazzadori 2. Shared Suffering and Cyclical Destruction: Failures of Environmental Control in the Aeneid, Aaron M. Seider 3. Chaos and Kosmos: An Ecocritical Reading of Seneca's Thyestes, Simona Martorana II. Connection 4. The Interspecies and Trans-Corporeal Mesh in Euripides' Bacchae, Maria Combatti 5. The Relationality of Darkness in Thucydides, Esther Eidinow 6. The Only Constant Is Change - The Environmental Dimension of Plutarch's De defectu oraculorum, Christopher Schliephake III. Contact 7. Poseidon's Mode of Action: Divine Agency and the Helike Disaster, Michiel van Veldhuizen 8. River, Agency, and Gender: An Ecocritical Reading of the Myths of the Tiber, Kresimir Vukovic 9. Ecological Grief and the Safaitic Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia, Eris Williams Reed IV. Change 10. Ecological Grief in Aelius Aristides and Philostratus, Jason König 11. An Allegory of the 'Anthropocene': Environmental and textual disorder in Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae, Marco Formisano 12. The Environmental Ethics of Delphi: Back-filling Latour's Facing Gaia, Mark D. Usher
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