Title: Pollution and the environment in ancient life and thought /
Authors: Cordovana, Orietta Dora,; Chiai, Gian Franco,
Date: 2017
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag,
Physical description: 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: G
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Preface -- Introduction. The Griffin and the Hunting / Orietta Dora Cordovana/Gian Franco Chiai -- Uso e gestione delle acque in Mesopotamia nel Secondo Millennio a. C. / Cristina Simonetti -- Roman Rural Landscape and Legal Rules / Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi -- Ancient Ecology: problems of terminology / Cinzia Bearzot -- Rivers and Waters Protection in the Ancient World: how religion can protect the environment / Gian Franco Chiai -- L'evoluzione della sensibilità ambientale a Roma all'inizio del Principato / Arnaldo Marcone -- Floods of the Tiber in Rome under the Julio-Claudians / Edoardo Bianchi -- Pliny the Elder and Ancient Pollution / Orietta Dora Cordovana -- La cultura dell'ambiente in ambito monastico tra V e VIII secolo / Luca Montecchio -- Malaria and the Environment of Greece / Elizabeth Craik -- Environmental Diseases according to Papyri from Egypt and Ancient Medical Thought / Isabella Andorlini (†) -- Anthropogenic Pollution in Greece and Rome / Alain Bresson -- Deforestation and Forest Protection in the Ancient World / J. Donald Hughes -- Roman Spectacles: exploring their environmental implications / Jocelyne Nelis-Clément.
Notes: Papers presented as part of a research project and conference held in Berlin on October 16-18, 2014.
Subject headings (LCSH): Environmental degradation in literature--History--To 1500--Congresses.; Environmental degradation--History--To 1500--Congresses.; Environmental protection in literature--History--To 1500--Congresses.; Environmental protection--History--To 1500--Congresses.; Environmental sciences--Early works to 1800.; History, Ancient--Congresses; Human ecology--Philosophy--Early works to 1800.; Pollution--History--To 1500--Congresses.