An environmental history of ancient Greece and Rome / Lukas Thommen ; translated by Philip Hill.

By:

Thommen, Lukas

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.Edition: Rev. English edDescription: 1 online resource (xi, 186 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781139338363
1139338366
9781139336628
1139336622
9780511843761
0511843763
128039353X
9781280393532
9781139339940
113933994X
1107226708
9781107226708
1139334123
9781139334129
9786613571458
6613571458
1139337491
9781139337496
1139341529
9781139341523

Uniform titles:

Umweltgeschichte der Antike. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: An Environmental History of Ancient Greece and Rome.DDC classification:

304.20938

LOC classification:

GF13.3.G74 T4713 2012eb

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Contents:

Part I. Greece. -- The geographic space -- People and nature -- Agriculture -- Forests and timber -- Gardens -- Animals -- Food -- Fire and water -- Earthquakes and volcanoes -- Mining. Part II. Rome -- The geographic space -- People and nature -- Agriculture -- Forests and timber -- Gardens -- Animals -- Food -- Fire and water -- Earthquakes and volcanoes -- Mining -- Urban problems and rural villa construction -- The environment in Roman Britain -- Conclusion.

Summary: Lively and accessible account of the relationship between man and nature in Graeco-Roman antiquity.Summary: In ancient Greece and Rome an ambiguous relationship developed between man and nature, and this decisively determined the manner in which they treated the environment. On the one hand, nature was conceived as a space characterized and inhabited by divine powers, which deserved appropriate respect. On the other, a rationalist view emerged, according to which humans were to subdue nature using their technologies and to dispose of its resources. This book systematically describes the ways in which the Greeks and Romans intervened in the environment and thus traces the history of the tension between the exploitation of resources and the protection of nature, from early Greece to the period of late antiquity. At the same time it analyses the comprehensive opening up of the Mediterranean and the northern frontier regions, both for settlement and for economic activity. The book's level and approach make it highly accessible to students and non-specialists.

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"Originally published in German by Verlag C.H. Beck ... München, 2009, as Umweltgeschichte der Antike"--Title page verso.

Based on Umweltgeschichte der Antike, somewhat expanded and with chapter 22, The environment in Roman Britain, added.

Lively and accessible account of the relationship between man and nature in Graeco-Roman antiquity.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-179) and index.

In ancient Greece and Rome an ambiguous relationship developed between man and nature, and this decisively determined the manner in which they treated the environment. On the one hand, nature was conceived as a space characterized and inhabited by divine powers, which deserved appropriate respect. On the other, a rationalist view emerged, according to which humans were to subdue nature using their technologies and to dispose of its resources. This book systematically describes the ways in which the Greeks and Romans intervened in the environment and thus traces the history of the tension between the exploitation of resources and the protection of nature, from early Greece to the period of late antiquity. At the same time it analyses the comprehensive opening up of the Mediterranean and the northern frontier regions, both for settlement and for economic activity. The book's level and approach make it highly accessible to students and non-specialists.