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The volume examines forms and functions of fictional and factual anticipatory environmental (hi)stories from antiquity to the Anthropocene, offering a diachronic as well as cross-cultural perspective on how different authors and societies have imagined their respective future environments.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Anticipating Environmental Futures Beyond Pastoral and Apocalyptic Visions
Christopher Schliephake and Evi Zemanek
Part I. Dialogues Between Times and Places
Chapter 1. Experience and Expectations: Hesiod on Work, Justice, and Environment
Astrid Möller
Chapter 2. Ancient Geographies of Health and Environmental Acumen: An Anticipatory Narrative in Galen (Method of Healing V, 12)
Caroline Petit
Chapter 3. The Past Is a Foreign Environment: Some Observations on Roman Wetland Drainage in Ancient and Modern Discourse
Jasmin Hettinger
Chapter 4. Future Imperfect in Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender (1579)
Diana G. Barnes
Chapter 5. Retrospective Prophecy in Contemporary Maya Literature: Chim Bacab's Flower of Memory
Charles M. Pigott
Part II. Extinction and Conservation
Chapter 6. Feeling Like a Species: The Environmental Future in Lucretius
Richard Hutchins
Chapter 7. Anticipating Multispecies Thinking in Plutarch's Animal Treatises
Christophe
About the author
Christopher Schliephake is senior lecturer in ancient history at the University of Augsburg.Evi Zemanek is full professor of comparative media studies at the Institute for Media and Cultural Studies, University of Freiburg.Christopher Schliephake is senior lecturer in ancient history at the University of Augsburg.Evi Zemanek is full professor of comparative media studies at the Institute for Media and Cultural Studies, University of Freiburg.
Summary
The volume examines forms and functions of fictional and factual anticipatory environmental (hi)stories from antiquity to the Anthropocene, offering a diachronic as well as cross-cultural perspective on how different authors and societies have imagined their respective future environments.
