Pollution and the Environment in Ancient Life and Thought - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3515116672 ISBN 13 : 9783515116671

Editeur : Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 2017

Synopsis

Was there any awareness of environmental problems among intellectuals and politicians of the ancient world? Did they even have notions of 'pollution', 'exploitation', and 'depletion' of natural resources? And what forms did human action take for the protection of the environment?

The authors - from the fields of Ancient History, Classical Archeology, Ancient Laws, and History of Medicine - focus on the environmental and ecological awareness in the ancient world, both in material evidence of daily life and in the intellectual thought. They analyse if there was a common awareness of environmental and ecological questions, or if there were only a few and isolated measures aimed at the interest of special social groups and at specific political goals. They discuss to which extent the ancient evidence can be used to identify the roots of modern environmental sensitivity.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Orietta Cordovana graduated in Classics and Classical Archaeology at the University La Sapienza in Rome, Ph.D. in Ancient History at the University of Messina. She lectured in Rome at La Sapienza, was a Humboldt fellow at the Freie Universitat Berlin, Marie Curie fellow at the University of Edinburgh and at the AIAS, Aarhus University. Gian Franco Chiai graduated in Classics and Ancient History at the University La Sapienza in Rome, Ph.D. in Ancient History in Rome, La Sapienza. He was a fellow at the Universities of Heidelberg and Eichstatt, the Freie Universitat Berlin and at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3515116672
• ISBN 13: 9783515116671
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Éditeur: Cordovana Orietta Dora, Chiai Gian Franco
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