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An environmental history of ancient Greece and Rome /
Lively and accessible account of the relationship between man and nature in Graeco-Roman antiquity.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Edición: | Rev. English ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Lively and accessible account of the relationship between man and nature in Graeco-Roman antiquity. 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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| Notas: | "Originally published in German by Verlag C.H. Beck ... München, 2009, as Umweltgeschichte der Antike"--Title page verso. Based on Umweltgeschichte der Antike, somewhat expanded and with chapter 22, The environment in Roman Britain, added. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 186 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-179) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139338363 1139338366 9781139336628 1139336622 9780511843761 0511843763 128039353X 9781280393532 9781139339940 113933994X 1107226708 9781107226708 1139334123 9781139334129 9786613571458 6613571458 1139337491 9781139337496 1139341529 9781139341523 |