Ecocriticism, Ecology, and the Cultures of Antiquity

By focusing on ancient culture and its reception, this book integrates antiquity into our current ecocritical theory and practice to fill in a gap in our environmental debates. It aims at a re-evaluation of antiquity in the present-day environmental concerns and re-frames our modern outlook on the more-than-human world from different cultures.

List of contents

Foreword: Before Nature?, Brooke Holmes
Abbreviations
Introduction, Christopher Schliephake

Part I: Environmental (Hi)stories: Negotiating Human-Nature Interactions
(1) Environmental Mosaics Natural and Imposed, J. Donald Hughes
(2) Poseidon's Wrath and the End of Helike: Notions about the Anthropogenic Character of Disasters in Antiquity, Justine Walter
(3) Glades of Dread: The Ecology and Aesthetics of loca horrida, Aneta Kliszcz and Joanna Komorowska
(4) Response: Hailed by the Genius of Ruins - Antiquity, the Anthropocene, and the Environmental Humanities, Hannes Bergthaller

Part II: Close Readings: Literary Ecologies and the More-than-Human World
(5) Eroticized Environments: Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy and the Roots of Erotic Ecocritical Contemplation, Thomas Sharkie and Marguerite Johnson
(6) Interspecies Ethics and Collaborative Survival in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, Richard Hutchins
(7) The Ecological Highway: Environmental Ekphrasis in St

About the author

Christopher Schliephake is senior lecturer in ancient history at the University of Augsburg.

Summary

By focusing on ancient culture and its reception, this book integrates antiquity into our current ecocritical theory and practice to fill in a gap in our environmental debates. It aims at a re-evaluation of antiquity in the present-day environmental concerns and re-frames our modern outlook on the more-than-human world from different cultures.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Schliephake
• Assisted by: Christopher Schliephake (Editor), Schliephake Christopher (Editor), Holmes Brooke (Foreword), Serenella Iovino (Afterword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781498532860
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3286-0
• No. of pages: 390
• Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice; Ecocritical Theory and Practic; Ecocritical Theory and Practic; Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; prehistory, HISTORY / Ancient / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Prehistoric archaeology, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory