Environmental Humanities and the Ancient World - Questions and Perspectives

Ancient ecological knowledge is a powerful resource for creating alternative world views in the contemporary Anthropocene.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The ecological turn in classical studies; 3. Athena and the olive: environmental aspects of Ancient Greek religion revisited; 4. Coda: ancient thought and contemporary environmental theory; 5. Summary.

Summary

This Element aims to show why the ancient tradition still matters in the Anthropocene. Revisiting ancient materials alongside central concepts of contemporary environmental theory, Schliephake offers new perspectives and argues that classical ecological knowledge is a powerful resource for creating alternative world views.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Schliephake, Christopher (Universitat Augsburg) Schliephake, Schliephake Christopher
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781108749046
• ISBN: 978-1-108-74904-6
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Environmental Humanities; Elements in Environmental Huma
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Society & culture: general, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Ancient World, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Sociology & anthropology, Society and culture: general, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Sociology and anthropology, Anthropocene; antiquity; ecology; myth; environment