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Pollution and the Environment in Ancient Life and Thought

By Orietta Dora Cordovana , Gian Franco Chiai (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Franz Steiner Verlag
Year
2017
ISBN
3515116672, 9783515116671
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3153582 bytes)
Series
Geographica Historica, 36
Pages
296\300
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2024-04-08 09:02:01

Description

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.

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