Encompassing Nature: Nature and Culture from Ancient Times to the Modern World
Robert M. Torrance is a widely published scholar, classicist, and translator. His books include The Spiritual Quest, Ideal and Spleen, The Comic Hero, and translations of Sophocles' The Women of Trachis and Philoctetes. He teaches comparative literature at the University of California, Davis, where he is a founding member of the Nature and Culture Program.