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ECOLΩ : écologie et environnement en Gréce et à Rome
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ISBN: 9782251030227 2251030220 Year: 2014 Volume: 22 Publisher: Paris Belles lettres

Human landscapes in classical antiquity
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ISBN: 1134841655 1280157518 0203426908 0203298322 9780203298329 9780203426906 9780415107556 0415107555 9786610157518 6610157510 9781134841653 9781280157516 9780415692472 0415692474 9781134841608 9781134841646 1134841647 Year: 1996 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon New York

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Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity shows how today's environmental and ecological 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. The effects of human settlement and cultivation on the landscape are considered, as well as the representation of landscape in Attic drama. Various aspects of farming, such as the use of terraces and the significance of olive growing are examined.


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An environmental history of ancient Greece and Rome
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ISBN: 9780521174657 9781107002166 1107002168 0521174651 9780511843761 1139334123 1107226708 1139337491 9786613571458 113933994X 1139341529 1139338366 0511843763 1139336622 128039353X 9781139338363 9781139336628 9781280393532 9781139339940 9781107226708 9781139334129 6613571458 9781139337496 9781139341523 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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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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