Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity - Environment and Culture

List of contents

1: Ancient history and landscape histories; 2: Ecology and pseudo-ecology: the example of ancient Greece; 3: Feeling the earth move: cultivation techniques on steep slopes in classical antiquity; 4: The uses of the uncultivated landscape in modern Greece: a pointer to the value of the wilderness in antiquity? 1; 5: The countryside in classical Greek drama, and isolated farms in dramatic landscapes; 6: Ancient hunting: from Homer to Polybios; 7: Where was the ‘wilderness' in Roman times?; 8: Rome and the management of water: environment, culture and power 1; 9: First fruit? The olive in the Roman world; 10: Barren fields? Landscapes and settlements in late Roman and post-Roman Italy; 11: Nature and views of her landscapes in Pliny the Elder; 12: Cosmic sympathies: nature as the expression of divine purpose

About the author

John Salmon, Graham Shipley

Summary

Examines whether today's environmental concerns can help illuminate our study of the ancient world. The contributors consider how the Greeks and Romans perceived their natural world and how their perceptions affected society.

Product details

• Assisted by: John Salmon (Editor), Graham Shipley (Editor), Shipley Graham (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.05.1996
• EAN: 9780415107556
• ISBN: 978-0-415-10755-6
• No. of pages: 360
• Weight: 840 g
• Series: Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation