Plato's Pigs and Other Ruminations
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Plato's Pigs and Other Ruminations

Ancient Guides to Living with Nature

M. D. Usher

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Plato's Pigs and Other Ruminations

Ancient Guides to Living with Nature

M. D. Usher

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The Greeks and Romans have been charged with destroying the ecosystems within which they lived. In this book, however, M. D. Usher argues rather that we can find in their lives and thought the origin of modern ideas about systems and sustainability, important topics for humans today and in the future. With chapters running the gamut of Greek and Roman experience – from the Presocratics and Plato to Roman agronomy and the Benedictine Rule – Plato's Pigs brings together unlikely bedfellows, both ancient and modern, to reveal surprising connections. Lively prose and liberal use of anecdotal detail, including an afterword about the author's own experiments with sustainable living on his sheep farm in Vermont, add a strong authorial voice. In short, this is a unique, first-of-its-kind book that is sure to be of interest to anyone working in Classics, environmental studies, philosophy, ecology, or the history of ideas.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9781108880947
Topic
Histoire
Subtopic
Histoire antique

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