Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity - Writing and Reading Environmental Disorder in Ancient Texts

About the author

Christopher Schliephake is Assistant Professor of Ancient History at Augsburg University, Germany. He is author of The Environmental Humanities and the Ancient World (2020) and editor of Ecocritisim, Ecology and Cultures in Antiquity (2017).Esther Eidinow is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol, UK. She is a series editor for the Bloomsbury series Ancient Environments, co-editor of Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Religious Experience (2022) and author of Envy, Poison and Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens (2016).Katharina Lorenz is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Giessen, Germany. She is a series editor for the Bloomsbury series Ancient Environments, and, among many other publications, is author of Bilder machen Räume (2008) and Mythogical Images and their Interpretation (2016).

Product details

• Assisted by: Anna Collar (Editor), Christopher Schliephake (Editor), Esther Eidinow (Editor), Katharina Lorenz (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 25.06.2026
• EAN: 9781350344235
• ISBN: 978-1-350-34423-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Ancient Environments
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, Ancient World, Literature: history & criticism, Ancient History, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval